Discovery certificate for object 2020nwn
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 75614 [ 2020TNSTR2016....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-07-02 23:52:43
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: SGLF

R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), 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 2020nwn
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abhcsmq
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:05:09.938 (181.291408) DEC = +31:01:57.70 (31.032694)
Discovery date: 2020-06-20 04:51:34.000 (JD=2459020.7024769)


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.noirlab.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-06-20 04:51:34.000
Flux: 20.913 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-06-17 05:45:31
Limiting flux: 20.632 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/2020nwn