TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 91685 [ 2020TNSTR3666....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-05 18:35:41
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, G. Pignata, 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: SN 2020abrg
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acvemao
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:00:17.397 (135.0724885) DEC = -01:24:34.88 (-1.4096889)
Discovery date: 2020-12-01 10:36:19.002 (JD=2459184.9418866)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J090017.61-012434.8
Host redshift: 0.241

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.12+-0.03 mag/day, r-rise > 0.15+-0.04 mag/day) 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/ZTF20acvemao

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-01 10:36:19.002
Flux: 19.7764 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-11-29 12:33:23
Limiting flux: 18.8068 ABMag
Filter: g-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/2020abrg