TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 66212 [ 2020TNSTR.984....1A ]
Date Received (UTC): 2020-04-06 01:28:31
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
C. Jimenez Angel, I. Perez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (IoA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's OIR Lab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.
IAU Designation: SN 2020gam
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aauoktk
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:16:03.545 (199.014771) DEC = +32:15:14.82 (32.254117)
Discovery date: 2020-04-02 10:44:15.000 (JD=2458941.9473958)
Potential host galaxy: SDSS J131603.48+321519.8
Host redshift: 0.0660175
Remarks: Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair.roe.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), ANTARES (https://antares.noao.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.
Photometry
Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-04-02 10:44:15.000
Flux: 20.509 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-04-02 09:46:43
Limiting flux: 20.321 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/2020gam
Date Received (UTC): 2020-04-06 01:28:31
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
C. Jimenez Angel, I. Perez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (IoA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's OIR Lab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.
IAU Designation: SN 2020gam
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aauoktk
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:16:03.545 (199.014771) DEC = +32:15:14.82 (32.254117)
Discovery date: 2020-04-02 10:44:15.000 (JD=2458941.9473958)
Potential host galaxy: SDSS J131603.48+321519.8
Host redshift: 0.0660175
Remarks: Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair.roe.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), ANTARES (https://antares.noao.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.
Photometry
Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-04-02 10:44:15.000
Flux: 20.509 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-04-02 09:46:43
Limiting flux: 20.321 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/2020gam