TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 70574 [ 2020TNSTR1316....1P ]
Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-12 23:24:09
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (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 2020jup
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaznpcr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:04:10.103 (241.042096) DEC = +27:34:36.72 (27.576867)
Discovery date: 2020-05-11 07:24:57.000 (JD=2458980.8089931)
Potential host galaxy: SDSS J160410.02+273436.8
Host redshift: 0.165544
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: 2020-05-11 07:24:57.000
Flux: 20.424 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-10 07:11:55
Limiting flux: 20.023 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/2020jup
Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-12 23:24:09
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (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 2020jup
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaznpcr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:04:10.103 (241.042096) DEC = +27:34:36.72 (27.576867)
Discovery date: 2020-05-11 07:24:57.000 (JD=2458980.8089931)
Potential host galaxy: SDSS J160410.02+273436.8
Host redshift: 0.165544
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: 2020-05-11 07:24:57.000
Flux: 20.424 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-10 07:11:55
Limiting flux: 20.023 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/2020jup