TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 65710 [ 2020TNSTR.914....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-03-31 15:59:42
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, C. Valenzuela, E. Castillo, D. Ruz-Mieres, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, F.E. Bauer, M. Catelan, S. Eyheramendy, M.J. Graham on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020fqr
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aatxree
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:58:07.123 (164.52967965) DEC = +22:43:39.96 (22.72776585)
Discovery date: 2020-03-31 04:58:17.000 (JD=2458939.7071412)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J105807.06+224337.5
Host redshift: 0.09745

Remarks: SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF20aatxree

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-03-31 04:58:17.000
Flux: 19.5285 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-03-07 08:54:36
Limiting flux: 19.5115 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020fqr