TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 36633 [ 2019TNSTR.922....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-06-03 08:17:37
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: TDE 2019gte
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19aavxfib
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:06:39.424 (196.6642678) DEC = -01:32:54.42 (-1.5484498)
Discovery date: 2019-05-31 06:04:01.000 (JD=2458634.7528009)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-05-31 06:04:01.000
Flux: 19.67 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-05-14 06:03:42
Limiting flux: 19.663 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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