TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 92510 [ 2020TNSTR3744....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-11 20:24:22
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 2020acjo
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acwpiev
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:10:15.013 (182.5625522) DEC = +25:36:05.27 (25.6014634)
Discovery date: 2020-12-11 11:58:30.999 (JD=2459194.9989699)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J121015.35+253605.5
Host redshift: 0.177589

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/ZTF20acwpiev

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-11 11:58:30.999
Flux: 20.2875 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-09 11:50:43
Limiting flux: 17.4966 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/2020acjo