TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 93426 [ 2020TNSTR3840....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-19 19:24:55
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, G. Pignata, 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 2020ader
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acydasr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 23:48:44.488 (357.1853681) DEC = +14:18:56.20 (14.31561165)
Discovery date: 2020-12-16 02:35:21.998 (JD=2459199.6078935)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J234844.75+141851.2
Host redshift: 0.096

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/ZTF20acydasr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-16 02:35:21.998
Flux: 20.205 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-14 04:37:50
Limiting flux: 18.468 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/2020ader