TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 92257 [ 2020TNSTR3732....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-10 18:31:13
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, L. Hernandez-Garcia, G. Pignata, L. Galbany, 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 2020accw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acvagvn
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:22:30.424 (170.6267653) DEC = +04:14:44.77 (4.24576885)
Discovery date: 2020-12-04 11:37:53.000 (JD=2459187.9846412)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J112230.40+041445.0
Host redshift: 0.034

Remarks: Early SN candidate (r-rise > 0.31+-0.10 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/ZTF20acvagvn

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-04 11:37:53.000
Flux: 19.2511 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-02 12:56:05
Limiting flux: 19.8462 ABMag
Filter: r-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/2020accw