TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 63740 [ 2020TNSTR.743....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-03-07 12:45:00
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE
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 2020eel
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19aanwobm
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:54:38.828 (223.66178473333) DEC = -04:45:16.89 (-4.7546919666667)
Discovery date: 2020-03-03 10:28:09.408 (JD=2458911.9362153)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-03-03 10:28:09.408
Flux: 19.52 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-29 11:33:33
Limiting flux: 19.6347 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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