TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 83684 [ 2020TNSTR3001....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-10-02 08:41:18
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 2020upt
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aceeeuz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:34:05.624 (23.52343506) DEC = +30:57:29.37 (30.95815746)
Discovery date: 2020-09-26 10:47:17.664 (JD=2459118.9495139)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-09-26 10:47:17.664
Flux: 20.77 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-09-26 08:21:50
Limiting flux: 21.0303 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/2020upt