TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 91571 [ 2020TNSTR3661....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-04 12:44:30
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 2020abof
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acuzgqa
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 05:17:47.856 (79.44940105) DEC = -08:48:15.59 (-8.804331825)
Discovery date: 2020-11-30 08:02:55.968 (JD=2459183.8353704)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-11-30 08:02:55.968
Flux: 16.68 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-11-26 10:29:41
Limiting flux: 19.6714 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/2020abof