Discovery certificate for object 2020egt
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 63845 [ 2020TNSTR.761....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-03-09 00:15:25
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

C. Jimenez Angel, I. Perez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (IoA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's OIR Lab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: SN 2020egt
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aasvmbk
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:04:50.641 (226.211004) DEC = +24:24:35.75 (24.409931)
Discovery date: 2020-03-03 10:18:19.000 (JD=2458911.9293866)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J150450.79+242434.8
Host redshift: 0.0404278

Remarks: Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair.roe.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), ANTARES (https://antares.noao.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-03-03 10:18:19.000
Flux: 20.547 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-27 12:29:44
Limiting flux: 19.795 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/2020egt