TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 79357 [ 2020TNSTR2419....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-08-07 05:51:03
Date made public:
Sender: 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 2020qwk
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abqaeta
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 18:17:23.695 (274.348729325) DEC = +62:47:51.87 (62.797740425)
Discovery date: 2020-08-06 07:39:40.608 (JD=2459067.8192245)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-08-06 07:39:40.608
Flux: 19.26 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-08-06 07:21:14
Limiting flux: 20.1481 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/2020qwk