Discovery certificate for object 2020dia
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 62740 [ 2020TNSTR.624....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-25 07:17:44
Sender: ZTF (ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE)
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 2020dia
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaoxzax
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:06:18.019 (166.57508032) DEC = +17:37:22.81 (17.62300314)
Discovery date: 2020-02-21 07:56:39.000 (JD=2458900.8310069)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-21 07:56:39.000
Flux: 19.63 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-21 06:28:24
Limiting flux: 20.3552 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/2020dia