TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 69924 [ 2020TNSTR1248....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-06 05:41:18
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: SN 2020jfl
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19aagkfvq
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:51:33.195 (162.88831095) DEC = -10:08:51.45 (-10.147625)
Discovery date: 2020-05-06 03:36:12.960 (JD=2458975.6501505)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-06 03:36:12.960
Flux: 18.73 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-04-27 05:34:08
Limiting flux: 19.5744 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/2020jfl