TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 63470 [ 2020TNSTR.714....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-03-04 13:14:35
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_NEW
Reporting Group: ZTF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, M. Giomi, J. van Santen (HU Berlin), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron, S. Schulze (Weizmann) on behalf of ZTF report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020dyd
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aasitjs
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:26:09.816 (231.540902) DEC = -08:29:33.90 (-8.4927501)
Discovery date: 2020-03-04 11:31:38.784 (JD=2458912.9803125)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-03-04 11:31:38.784
Flux: 19.27 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-13 13:04:40
Limiting flux: 19.5108 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020dyd