TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 58521 [ 2020TNSTR.105....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-11 12:20:47
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 2020sl
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18acqtqic
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:28:04.828 (202.0201161) DEC = +06:15:57.70 (6.2660281)
Discovery date: 2020-01-07 13:01:35.000 (JD=2458856.0427662)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-07 13:01:35.000
Flux: 19.48 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-04 13:07:30
Limiting flux: 20.2957 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/2020sl