TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 70872 [ 2020TNSTR1376....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-16 05:04:28
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE
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 2020kbg
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aazbqvr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:13:48.493 (168.45205263333) DEC = +25:44:46.72 (25.7463111)
Discovery date: 2020-05-10 05:29:23.136 (JD=2458979.7287384)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-10 05:29:23.136
Flux: 19.09 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-07 05:57:04
Limiting flux: 19.62 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/2020kbg