Discovery certificate for object 2020obo
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 75850 [ 2020TNSTR2057....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-07-07 05:38:29
Sender: ZTF (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 2020obo
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abadxco
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:10:51.389 (242.7141222) DEC = -07:43:58.07 (-7.73279612)
Discovery date: 2020-06-29 05:03:19.296 (JD=2459029.7106366)


Remarks: Known SDSS and/or MILLIQUAS QSO/AGN. . See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria..

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-29 05:03:19.296
Flux: 19.02 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-26 05:59:41
Limiting flux: 20.0283 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/2020obo