Discovery certificate for object 2020nih
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 74927 [ 2020TNSTR1920....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-24 08:29:18
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 2020nih
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abelczw
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:02:24.423 (255.60176325) DEC = -01:15:44.60 (-1.26238915)
Discovery date: 2020-06-17 06:33:04.608 (JD=2459017.7729745)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-17 06:33:04.608
Flux: 19.68 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-14 08:04:57
Limiting flux: 20.6249 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/2020nih