Discovery certificate for object 2020abif
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 91310 [ 2020TNSTR3614....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-01 18:39:41
Sender: ZTF (ALeRCE)
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, L. Hernandez-Garcia, G. Pignata, L. Galbany, E. Camacho, J. Silva-Farfan, A. Mourao, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, C. Valenzuela, E. Castillo, D. Ruz-Mieres, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, M. Catelan, S. Eyheramendy, M.J. Graham on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020abif
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aculzda
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 00:22:12.279 (5.551164225) DEC = +00:07:02.36 (0.117323475)
Discovery date: 2020-11-29 02:55:20.997 (JD=2459182.6217708)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J002212.32+000703.1
Host redshift: 0.071

Remarks: SN candidate classified using ALeRCE's stamp classifier - see http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03309 - and the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF20aculzda

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-11-29 02:55:20.997
Flux: 19.7895 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-11-27 05:56:10
Limiting flux: 18.3918 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020abif