TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 73818 [ 2020TNSTR1758....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-12 21:41:28
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, L. Galbany, G. Pignata, E. Camacho, J. Silva-Farfan, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, C. Valenzuela, E. Castillo, D. Ruz-Mieres, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, F.E. Bauer, M. Catelan, S. Eyheramendy, M.J. Graham on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020mkx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abejjsp
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:27:17.354 (216.82230965) DEC = -12:19:59.31 (-12.33314155)
Discovery date: 2020-06-11 04:48:21.004 (JD=2459011.7002431)

Potential host galaxy: LCRS B142435.0-120636
Host redshift: 0.112401

Remarks: SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF20abejjsp

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-11 04:48:21.004
Flux: 20.4098 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-05 06:26:42
Limiting flux: 19.113 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

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