TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 93181 [ 2020TNSTR3820....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-17 13:58:34
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 2020acyn
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acxtfrf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:04:03.536 (226.01473488571) DEC = +08:19:28.30 (8.3245273857143)
Discovery date: 2020-12-16 13:34:44.256 (JD=2459200.065787)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-16 13:34:44.256
Flux: 19.09 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-16 13:27:57
Limiting flux: 19.544 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/2020acyn