Discovery certificate for object 2016gqg
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 5549 [ 2018TNSTR1461....1K ]

Date Received (UTC): 2016-09-28 07:42:01
Date made public: 2018-09-28
Sender: iPTF (iPTF_Bot1)
Reporting Group: iPTF     Discovery Data Source: iPTF

M. Kasliwal, Y. Cao (Caltech), on behalf of iPTF report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2016gqg
Discoverer internal name: iPTF16gqg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 00:17:52.793 (4.469971) DEC = +44:02:28.58 (44.041272)
Discovery date: 2016-09-28 07:06:14.000 (JD=2457659.7959954)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2016-09-28 07:06:14.000
Flux: 20.505 ABMag
Filter: R-PTF
Instrument: CFH12k
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2009-01-01 00:00:00
Limiting flux: 21.5 ABMag
Filter: R-PTF
Instrument: CFH12k
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2016gqg