Discovery certificate for object 2020acwu
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 93100 [ 2020TNSTR3804....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-16 20:15:12
Sender: ZTF (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 2020acwu
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acxzsgo
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:47:02.044 (191.7585177) DEC = -05:10:47.46 (-5.179851)
Discovery date: 2020-12-16 13:01:49.999 (JD=2459200.0429398)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J124701.99-051047.1
Host redshift: 0.092

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/ZTF20acxzsgo

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-16 13:01:49.999
Flux: 19.9498 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-16 12:27:54
Limiting flux: 19.8189 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/2020acwu