TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 36226 [ 2019TNSTR.891....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-05-31 21:07:09
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE
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 2019gil
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19aabypxl
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:55:57.290 (178.98871) DEC = +06:44:57.51 (6.749308)
Discovery date: 2019-05-16 05:34:16.000 (JD=2458619.7321296)


Remarks: Known SDSS and/or MILLIQUAS QSO/AGN. See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-05-16 05:34:16.000
Flux: 17.72 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-05-09 04:33:16
Limiting flux: 20.3769 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/2019gil