TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 70222 [ 2020TNSTR1286....1S ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-10 19:02:26
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

R. Shirley, I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, (IAC & ULL), R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), 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 2020jlo
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aazcnzr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:26:24.083 (216.600346) DEC = -18:28:06.89 (-18.468581)
Discovery date: 2020-05-03 06:06:51.000 (JD=2458972.7547569)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J142623.94-182804.3
Host redshift: 0.110957

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: 2020-05-03 06:06:51.000
Flux: 19.737 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-04-30 07:34:02
Limiting flux: 17.647 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/2020jlo