TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 93476 [ 2020TNSTR3856....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-20 13:00:11
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 2020adfq
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acymcuj
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:01:30.413 (180.3767223) DEC = -01:24:48.47 (-1.4134641)
Discovery date: 2020-12-15 12:34:30.144 (JD=2459199.0239583)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-15 12:34:30.144
Flux: 20.18 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-12 12:38:22
Limiting flux: 19.9099 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020adfq