TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 58628

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-13 04:21:19
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 2020uk
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaeszsm
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:59:41.515 (59.9229809) DEC = +26:35:19.96 (26.588878875)
Discovery date: 2020-01-12 03:52:28.000 (JD=2458860.6614352)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-12 03:52:28.000
Flux: 19.26 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-11 05:23:39
Limiting flux: 19.6402 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/2020uk