TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 63531 [ 2020TNSTR.728....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-03-05 04:13:43
Date made public:
Sender: 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 2020eag
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aarbvey
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 06:02:17.862 (90.57442425) DEC = -26:43:39.26 (-26.727571)
Discovery date: 2020-02-26 03:34:03.360 (JD=2458905.6486458)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-26 03:34:03.360
Flux: 18.97 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-15 05:04:08
Limiting flux: 19.7853 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/2020eag