Discovery certificate for object 2020kdy
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 70986 [ 2020TNSTR1390....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-17 05:04:20
Sender: ZTF (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: AT 2020kdy
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aazbfvl
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:15:43.235 (138.93014495) DEC = +50:54:21.29 (50.905913125)
Discovery date: 2020-05-11 04:25:34.752 (JD=2458980.6844329)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-11 04:25:34.752
Flux: 19.58 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-05 05:28:45
Limiting flux: 19.8179 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/2020kdy