TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 92303 [ 2020TNSTR3732....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-10 18:51:35
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 2020aceq
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acwnpia
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:27:34.737 (171.89473545) DEC = +78:22:34.09 (78.37613705)
Discovery date: 2020-12-10 11:18:41.996 (JD=2459193.9713194)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J112734.93+782234.1

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/ZTF20acwnpia

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-10 11:18:41.996
Flux: 20.2194 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-05 10:56:11
Limiting flux: 19.6858 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/2020aceq