TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 36358 [ 2019TNSTR.900....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-06-01 10:19:20
Date made public:
Sender: 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: SN 2019gme
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19aavorpa
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:36:27.746 (264.1156095) DEC = +13:24:11.02 (13.4030598)
Discovery date: 2019-05-29 08:04:05.000 (JD=2458632.8361806)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-05-29 08:04:05.000
Flux: 19.68 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-05-24 11:32:15
Limiting flux: 19.7109 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://sandbox.wis-tns.org/object/2019gme