TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 91831 [ 2020TNSTR3681....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-06 19:43:35
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: AT 2020abvb
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acvjvkr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:54:43.609 (58.6817032) DEC = +32:41:00.62 (32.6835055)
Discovery date: 2020-12-06 08:54:26.997 (JD=2459189.8711458)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J035443.59+324101.3

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/ZTF20acvjvkr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-06 08:54:26.997
Flux: 20.0405 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-06 06:53:13
Limiting flux: 20.4157 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/2020abvb