Discovery certificate for object 2020cns
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 61844 [ 2020TNSTR.490....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-14 23:44:56
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

C. Jimenez Angel, I. Perez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), 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 2020cns
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aandqdk
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:08:34.326 (137.143025) DEC = +48:36:25.39 (48.607053)
Discovery date: 2020-02-13 05:59:54.000 (JD=2458892.7499306)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J090834.65+483625.9
Host redshift: 0.052169

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: 2020-02-13 05:59:54.000
Flux: 20.73 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-12 06:56:33
Limiting flux: 20.093 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/2020cns