TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 65866 [ 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 2020fud
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaulcil
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:07:36.769 (136.9032037) DEC = -25:43:24.49 (-25.7234692)
Discovery date: 2020-04-02 04:32:40.704 (JD=2458941.6893634)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-04-02 04:32:40.704
Flux: 18.51 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-03-05 05:21:43
Limiting flux: 19.5613 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/2020fud