TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 70326 [ 2020TNSTR1308....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-11 07:03:57
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 2020jnv
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aayvlky
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:24:42.241 (171.1760033) DEC = +34:52:58.06 (34.8827936)
Discovery date: 2020-05-11 04:08:36.096 (JD=2458980.6726389)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-11 04:08:36.096
Flux: 19.5 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-05 05:58:29
Limiting flux: 19.8303 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/2020jnv