Discovery certificate for object 2020adkq
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 93698 [ 2020TNSTR3885....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-22 11:19:07
Sender: ZTF (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 2020adkq
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acxsqel
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:46:44.050 (161.68354333333) DEC = +27:07:29.82 (27.124949466667)
Discovery date: 2020-12-15 11:23:57.408 (JD=2459198.9749653)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-15 11:23:57.408
Flux: 20.11 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-11 11:59:54
Limiting flux: 20.6838 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/2020adkq