Discovery certificate for object 2020bod
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 60800 [ 2020TNSTR.355....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-01 00:00:49
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (IoA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's OIR Lab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020bod
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aajcaxe
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:56:14.145 (224.058938) DEC = +35:29:36.17 (35.493381)
Discovery date: 2020-01-24 10:45:44.000 (JD=2458872.9484259)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J145613.69+352937.3
Host redshift: 0.07749

Remarks: Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair.roe.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), ANTARES (https://antares.noao.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-24 10:45:44.000
Flux: 20.145 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-24 10:41:09
Limiting flux: 20.443 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/2020bod