Discovery certificate for object 2019gas
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 35910 [ 2019TNSTR.874....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-05-29 08:39:01
Sender: ZTF (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: AT 2019gas
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19aavipoo
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:48:18.161 (252.0756701) DEC = +28:41:22.23 (28.6895086)
Discovery date: 2019-05-25 09:01:54.000 (JD=2458628.876331)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for details regarding selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-05-25 09:01:54.000
Flux: 19.42 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-05-15 05:36:49
Limiting flux: 20.0004 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/2019gas