Discovery certificate for object 2020atk
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 59812 [ 2020TNSTR.261....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-25 03:44:37
Sender: ZTF (ZTF_AMPEL_NEW)
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 2020atk
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aahsrna
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 22:46:05.531 (341.52304673333) DEC = +22:23:18.29 (22.388413733333)
Discovery date: 2020-01-25 02:15:58.000 (JD=2458873.5944329)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-25 02:15:58.000
Flux: 17.95 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-15 02:52:04
Limiting flux: 19.9366 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/2020atk