Discovery certificate for object 2020nhb
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 74880 [ 2020TNSTR1905....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-23 11:22:53
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, 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 NOIRLab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020nhb
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abekgrn
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:11:21.648 (242.8402) DEC = +54:17:10.49 (54.286247)
Discovery date: 2020-05-26 07:52:31.000 (JD=2458995.8281366)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J161121.49+541709.1
Host redshift: 0.174312

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: 2020-05-26 07:52:31.000
Flux: 21.081 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-05-26 06:49:07
Limiting flux: 20.881 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/2020nhb