TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 57838 [ 2020TNSTR..62....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-06 12:10:12
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 2020hv
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aabbuck
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:09:54.416 (47.476735) DEC = +25:34:13.38 (25.570382)
Discovery date: 2020-01-02 03:29:57.000 (JD=2458850.6458102)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-02 03:29:57.000
Flux: 19.69 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-01 04:03:59
Limiting flux: 20.4869 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/2020hv