TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 90958 [ 2020TNSTR3603....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-11-29 04:18:54
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 2020abdc
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20actowqe
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 22:57:43.309 (344.43045389091) DEC = +37:03:07.55 (37.052097781818)
Discovery date: 2020-11-25 03:16:13.728 (JD=2459178.6362731)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-11-25 03:16:13.728
Flux: 16.65 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-11-20 06:28:34
Limiting flux: 20.5966 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/2020abdc