TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 93074 [ 2020TNSTR3804....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-16 20:15:12
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 2020acvu
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acxxcbw
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 07:04:48.118 (106.2004933) DEC = +14:30:31.09 (14.5086368)
Discovery date: 2020-12-10 10:28:17.996 (JD=2459193.9363194)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J070448.11+143030.0

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/ZTF20acxxcbw

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-10 10:28:17.996
Flux: 20.6362 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-10 07:16:38
Limiting flux: 20.4198 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/2020acvu