TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 49260 [ 2019TNSTR2062....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-10-11 10:28:01
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 2019skl
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18aaaeaja
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 05:24:39.936 (81.166401557143) DEC = +09:03:47.37 (9.0631593142857)
Discovery date: 2019-10-10 12:02:38.000 (JD=2458767.0018287)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-10-10 12:02:38.000
Flux: 16.68 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-10-10 10:36:15
Limiting flux: 20.1053 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2019skl