TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 63530 [ 2020TNSTR.728....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-03-05 04:13:41
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: SN 2020eaf
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aasjzhg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 02:58:19.979 (44.58324675) DEC = +40:55:23.39 (40.9231629)
Discovery date: 2020-03-05 02:52:16.032 (JD=2458913.6196296)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-03-05 02:52:16.032
Flux: 17.13 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-25 04:15:06
Limiting flux: 20.0143 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/2020eaf