TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 67397 [ 2020TNSTR1032....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-04-14 11:58:34
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 2020hea
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19acfvcsf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:33:22.597 (263.34415498) DEC = +15:13:22.18 (15.22282806)
Discovery date: 2020-04-14 10:58:03.936 (JD=2458953.9569907)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-04-14 10:58:03.936
Flux: 19.11 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-04-14 10:56:41
Limiting flux: 20.0007 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/2020hea