TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 71559 [ 2020TNSTR1457....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-22 05:05:57
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: AT 2020kry
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aazsmhz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:06:51.431 (196.7142938) DEC = +21:06:49.84 (21.1138452)
Discovery date: 2020-05-16 04:58:36.768 (JD=2458985.7073727)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-16 04:58:36.768
Flux: 19.02 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-11 06:03:04
Limiting flux: 20.8448 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/2020kry