Discovery certificate for object 2020qig
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 78679 [ 2020TNSTR2296....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-07-27 00:30:36
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Poidevin, I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel (IAC & ULL), R. Shirley (Univ. of Southampton), 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 2020qig
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20abocefn
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:46:36.088 (326.650367) DEC = +33:31:50.66 (33.530739)
Discovery date: 2020-07-20 09:59:57.000 (JD=2459050.9166319)


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: 2020-07-20 09:59:57.000
Flux: 20.9 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-07-19 09:45:05
Limiting flux: 20.956 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/2020qig