TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 60152 [ 2020TNSTR.284....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-27 08:45:13
Date made public:
Sender: 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 2020bbj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aahkkql
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:10:43.668 (137.68194896667) DEC = +03:16:07.25 (3.2686807666667)
Discovery date: 2020-01-24 05:57:19.000 (JD=2458872.7481366)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-24 05:57:19.000
Flux: 19.41 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-18 09:11:32
Limiting flux: 20.4607 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/2020bbj