TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 90896 [ 2020TNSTR3593....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-11-28 13:19:05
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 2020abbt
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18aaiuvja
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:24:41.827 (186.1742802) DEC = +63:23:32.24 (63.3922885)
Discovery date: 2020-11-28 11:21:59.040 (JD=2459181.9735995)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-11-28 11:21:59.040
Flux: 19.01 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-11-26 11:51:56
Limiting flux: 20.5691 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/2020abbt