TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 67389 [ 2020TNSTR1032....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-04-14 10:58:39
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE
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: SN 2020hdw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18aaoxrup
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:00:51.987 (240.21661365) DEC = +56:21:08.94 (56.352484275)
Discovery date: 2020-04-14 10:39:20.736 (JD=2458953.9439931)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-04-14 10:39:20.736
Flux: 17.46 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-04-05 12:11:24
Limiting flux: 20.1691 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/2020hdw