TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 69481 [ 2020TNSTR1187....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-01 20:40:22
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, L. Galbany, G. Pignata, E. Camacho, J. Silva-Farfan, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, C. Valenzuela, E. Castillo, D. Ruz-Mieres, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, F.E. Bauer, M. Catelan, S. Eyheramendy, M.J. Graham on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020itm
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaxufhm
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:47:39.832 (146.9159662) DEC = -27:29:27.59 (-27.4909963)
Discovery date: 2020-05-01 04:28:36.002 (JD=2458970.6865278)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J094739.83-272927.0

Remarks: SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF20aaxufhm

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-01 04:28:36.002
Flux: 19.0314 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-04-28 03:31:07
Limiting flux: 19.7764 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020itm