TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 68305 [ 2020TNSTR1102....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-04-22 00:04:37
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (IoA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's OIR Lab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020hvh
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaqtsjb
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:48:06.408 (222.0267) DEC = +53:50:38.85 (53.844125)
Discovery date: 2020-02-20 12:46:11.000 (JD=2458900.0320718)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J144806.84+535028.6
Host redshift: 0.14806

Remarks: Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair.roe.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), ANTARES (https://antares.noao.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-20 12:46:11.000
Flux: 21.105 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-20 12:09:33
Limiting flux: 20.502 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/2020hvh