TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 83760 [ 2020TNSTR3011....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-10-03 05:41:16
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: SN 2020usa
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acbcfaa
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 22:26:13.567 (336.5565279) DEC = -02:16:06.65 (-2.2685142666667)
Discovery date: 2020-09-22 05:32:38.400 (JD=2459114.7309954)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-09-22 05:32:38.400
Flux: 20.11 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-09-15 07:40:17
Limiting flux: 20.107 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/2020usa