Discovery certificate for object 2020kbm
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 70903 [ 2020TNSTR1376....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-05-16 10:04:22
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 2020kbm
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aazuvdt
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:36:41.216 (264.17173454) DEC = +04:07:20.83 (4.12245336)
Discovery date: 2020-05-09 09:48:36.000 (JD=2458978.90875)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-05-09 09:48:36.000
Flux: 18.98 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-03 11:07:21
Limiting flux: 20.8424 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/2020kbm