Discovery certificate for object 2020biu
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 60509 [ 2020TNSTR.330....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-30 04:29:22
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 2020biu
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19acyrqsn
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 05:50:11.079 (87.5461614) DEC = -09:26:56.11 (-9.4489201333333)
Discovery date: 2020-01-27 05:02:16.000 (JD=2458875.7099074)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-27 05:02:16.000
Flux: 18.36 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-27 04:05:23
Limiting flux: 20.568 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020biu