Discovery certificate for object 2020nog
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 75223 [ 2020TNSTR1957....1S ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-27 05:50:24
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

R. Shirley, I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, (IAC & ULL), R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (IoA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's NOIRLab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020nog
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abgnmgw
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:34:57.533 (233.739721) DEC = +06:57:02.04 (6.950567)
Discovery date: 2020-06-14 05:38:06.000 (JD=2459014.7347917)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J153458.12+065707.4
Host redshift: 0.182779

Remarks: Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair.roe.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), ANTARES (https://antares.noao.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-14 05:38:06.000
Flux: 20.941 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-11 06:59:12
Limiting flux: 20.554 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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