TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 69766 [ 2020TNSTR1228....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-04 04:40:57
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 2020jbx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaxumds
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 07:16:14.036 (109.05848355) DEC = +33:03:42.99 (33.06194145)
Discovery date: 2020-05-01 05:09:25.632 (JD=2458970.7148843)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-01 05:09:25.632
Flux: 18.77 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-04-24 04:23:05
Limiting flux: 20.5348 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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