TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 74239 [ 2020TNSTR1824....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-16 08:24:00
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 2020msw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18aaiytox
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:42:25.723 (265.60717824878) DEC = +41:13:10.23 (41.219507870732)
Discovery date: 2020-06-14 08:13:11.136 (JD=2459014.8424884)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-14 08:13:11.136
Flux: 18.91 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-14 06:18:42
Limiting flux: 20.6889 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/2020msw