TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 57890 [ 2020TNSTR..62....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-06 13:10:47
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 2020il
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19adcdgms
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:05:57.599 (136.48999631429) DEC = +56:27:00.43 (56.450120171429)
Discovery date: 2020-01-02 11:23:28.000 (JD=2458850.9746296)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-02 11:23:28.000
Flux: 19.57 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-02 10:26:37
Limiting flux: 20.2974 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/2020il