TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 65346 [ 2020TNSTR.904....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-03-29 18:43:14
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 2020fhf
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aattqcx
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:10:23.978 (227.59990875) DEC = +08:47:22.09 (8.7894706)
Discovery date: 2020-03-28 10:34:02.784 (JD=2458936.9403125)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-03-28 10:34:02.784
Flux: 19.26 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-03-06 12:28:03
Limiting flux: 20.6421 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/2020fhf