Discovery certificate for object 2017fb
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 7818 [ 2019TNSTR..38....1K ]

Date Received (UTC): 2017-01-07 17:07:30
Date made public: 2019-01-07
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 2017fb
Discoverer internal name: iPTF17fb
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:13:00.837 (123.253486) DEC = +41:18:26.74 (41.307429)
Discovery date: 2017-01-07 06:05:45.000 (JD=2457760.7539931)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2017-01-07 06:05:45.000
Flux: 20.3756 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/2017fb