TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 91731 [ 2020TNSTR3686....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-06 05:38:31
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 2020absd
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acupxyy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:01:39.440 (45.41433458) DEC = +10:27:43.91 (10.46219852)
Discovery date: 2020-12-02 04:53:02.400 (JD=2459185.7034954)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-02 04:53:02.400
Flux: 19.45 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-11-23 08:21:11
Limiting flux: 20.6753 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/2020absd