TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 74245 [ 2020TNSTR1824....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-16 09:24:06
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: SN 2020mta
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abfklsy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 20:29:55.935 (307.4830633) DEC = +08:38:44.06 (8.6455711)
Discovery date: 2020-06-13 09:20:43.296 (JD=2459013.8893866)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-13 09:20:43.296
Flux: 20.3 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-13 08:59:46
Limiting flux: 20.4881 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/2020mta