TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 73937 [ 2020TNSTR1797....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-14 06:23:45
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_NEW
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 2020mns
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abezrwc
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:07:46.560 (241.94399865) DEC = -19:30:47.67 (-19.51324065)
Discovery date: 2020-06-11 07:33:28.224 (JD=2459011.8149074)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-11 07:33:28.224
Flux: 19.84 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-30 07:35:52
Limiting flux: 20.061 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/2020mns