TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 91280 [ 2020TNSTR3624....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-01 13:26:56
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 2020abhn
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20actoaob
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:28:21.646 (187.09019183333) DEC = +22:18:08.01 (22.302225533333)
Discovery date: 2020-11-24 12:40:39.072 (JD=2459178.0282292)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-11-24 12:40:39.072
Flux: 19.8 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-11-20 11:45:15
Limiting flux: 20.2573 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/2020abhn