Discovery certificate for object 2016hdr
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 5948 [ 2018TNSTR1568....1K ]

Date Received (UTC): 2016-10-13 08:11:15
Date made public: 2018-10-13
Sender: iPTF (iPTF_Bot1)
Reporting Group: iPTF     Discovery Data Source: iPTF

M. Kasliwal, Y. Cao (Caltech), on behalf of iPTF report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2016hdr
Discoverer internal name: iPTF16hdr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:18:58.181 (19.742421) DEC = +04:40:47.29 (4.679802)
Discovery date: 2016-10-13 06:40:19.000 (JD=2457674.7779977)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2016-10-13 06:40:19.000
Flux: 18.6033 ABMag
Filter: R-PTF
Instrument: CFH12k
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2009-01-01 00:00:00
Limiting flux: 21.5 ABMag
Filter: R-PTF
Instrument: CFH12k
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2016hdr