Discovery certificate for object 2020ook
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 76492 [ 2020TNSTR2113....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-07-12 10:40:57
Sender: ZTF (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 2020ook
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20ablakca
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 20:22:33.196 (305.63831805) DEC = -07:15:59.80 (-7.2666115)
Discovery date: 2020-07-12 08:01:56.352 (JD=2459042.8346759)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-07-12 08:01:56.352
Flux: 18.97 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-07-09 10:33:07
Limiting flux: 19.7943 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/2020ook