Discovery certificate for object 2020nua
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 75510 [ 2020TNSTR1994....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-06-30 13:40:58
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Poidevin, I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, 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 2020nua
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abiqlcv
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:12:57.023 (318.237596) DEC = +11:22:22.51 (11.372919)
Discovery date: 2020-06-26 09:05:29.000 (JD=2459026.8788079)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J211256.94+112225.0
Host redshift: 0.0968263

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: 2020-06-26 09:05:29.000
Flux: 20.187 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-23 08:14:03
Limiting flux: 20.642 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/2020nua