TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 90429 [ 2020TNSTR3522....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-11-21 05:16:59
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 2020aarj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acqilbf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 18:25:46.500 (276.44375196667) DEC = +43:13:19.36 (43.222044266667)
Discovery date: 2020-11-18 03:30:08.352 (JD=2459171.6459259)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-11-18 03:30:08.352
Flux: 19.33 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-11-18 02:13:23
Limiting flux: 19.7558 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/2020aarj