TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 92394 [ 2020TNSTR3752....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-11 10:54:38
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 2020acgu
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18adffldf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:50:58.561 (132.7440029) DEC = -15:40:02.48 (-15.66735665)
Discovery date: 2020-12-04 12:04:01.920 (JD=2459188.0028009)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-04 12:04:01.920
Flux: 17.76 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-02 13:01:34
Limiting flux: 19.6247 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/2020acgu