TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 61105 [ 2020TNSTR.401....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-05 07:33:31
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 2020bvy
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aalxtwm
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:27:39.504 (171.9146008) DEC = +80:36:49.32 (80.61370055)
Discovery date: 2020-02-04 09:53:45.000 (JD=2458883.9123264)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-04 09:53:45.000
Flux: 19.53 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-02 07:09:36
Limiting flux: 20.1259 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/2020bvy