TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 92182 [ 2020TNSTR3739....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-10 09:36:41
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 2020acbf
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acuqyea
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 04:44:01.487 (71.0061953) DEC = -18:09:23.54 (-18.15653935)
Discovery date: 2020-12-10 06:48:29.088 (JD=2459193.783669)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-10 06:48:29.088
Flux: 19.14 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-06 07:47:06
Limiting flux: 19.8525 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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