Discovery certificate for object 2020ksl
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 71606 [ 2020TNSTR1454....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-22 13:02:24
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), 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: SN 2020ksl
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abatows
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:14:07.777 (243.532404) DEC = +30:02:29.89 (30.041636)
Discovery date: 2020-05-18 07:56:37.000 (JD=2458987.8309838)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J161408.23+300232.1
Host redshift: 0.0943601

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: 2020-05-18 07:56:37.000
Flux: 21.255 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-17 09:13:00
Limiting flux: 20.971 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020ksl