TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 74319 [ 2020TNSTR1832....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-17 06:25:00
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 2020mur
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abfqrgl
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:54:11.435 (238.54764555) DEC = -09:20:19.70 (-9.3388045)
Discovery date: 2020-06-17 05:04:14.592 (JD=2459017.7112847)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-17 05:04:14.592
Flux: 18.16 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-14 05:36:45
Limiting flux: 20.3965 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/2020mur