TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 82230 [ 2020TNSTR2801....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-09-15 19:30:32
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, L. Hernandez-Garcia, A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, L. Galbany, G. Pignata, E. Camacho, J. Silva-Farfan, A. Mourao, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, C. Valenzuela, E. Castillo, D. Ruz-Mieres, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, M. Catelan, S. Eyheramendy, M.J. Graham on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020tiw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abzjobr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 22:58:22.618 (344.5942398) DEC = +21:10:39.25 (21.17757045)
Discovery date: 2020-09-14 07:06:59.000 (JD=2459106.7965162)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J225822.52+211040.9
Host redshift: 0.135

Remarks: SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF20abzjobr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-09-14 07:06:59.000
Flux: 20.0755 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-09-12 10:27:26
Limiting flux: 19.1868 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

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