TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 65857 [ 2020TNSTR.956....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-04-03 09:58:59
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 2020fua
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaudtgy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:31:19.085 (157.8295198) DEC = -08:35:26.66 (-8.5907378)
Discovery date: 2020-04-01 05:34:10.848 (JD=2458940.7320718)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-04-01 05:34:10.848
Flux: 18.62 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-03-05 06:00:12
Limiting flux: 19.8042 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/2020fua