Discovery certificate for object 2019vir
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 53155 [ 2019TNSTR2907....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-11-13 13:09:39
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 2019vir
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19acsbsnv
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:39:15.964 (129.8165154) DEC = +08:09:57.83 (8.16606325)
Discovery date: 2019-11-13 12:39:25.000 (JD=2458801.0273843)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-11-13 12:39:25.000
Flux: 19.09 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-11-10 12:47:59
Limiting flux: 20.2485 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/2019vir