TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 69930 [ 2020TNSTR1248....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-06 06:41:25
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: SN 2020jfo
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaynrrh
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:21:50.479 (185.46032815) DEC = +04:28:54.14 (4.4817053)
Discovery date: 2020-05-06 04:51:41.184 (JD=2458975.7025579)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-06 04:51:41.184
Flux: 16.01 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-02 06:36:11
Limiting flux: 19.6963 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/2020jfo