ZTF detection of the 2020 eruption of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a
ATel #14131; I. Perez-Fournon (ULL & IAC), M. R. Alarcon (ULL & IAC), J. Barrios-Perez (ULL & IAC), C. Cuervo-Rodriguez (ULL), E. Esparza-Borges (ULL), J. Gonzalez-Otero (ULL), A. Laza-Ramos (ULL), G. Muñoz-Sanchez (ULL), M. Puig-Subira (ULL), and J. Villafañe-Calvo (ULL).
on 31 Oct 2020; 12:43 UT
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Credential Certification: Ismael Perez-Fournon (ipf@iac.es)
Subjects: Optical, Nova, Transient
We report the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) detection of the 2020 eruption of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a. The discovery of the 2020 eruption with the Liverpool Telescope has been reported by Darnley et al. ATel #14130.
The first ZTF detections of the 2020 eruption of M31N 2008-12a are g-ZTF = 18.33 +/- 0.09 on 2020-10-31 05:50:42 UTC and r-ZTF = 18.29 +/- 0.07 on 2020-10-31 07:42:41 UTC. The last non-detection by ZTF was on 2020-10-29 05:40:54 UTC with a limiting magnitude r-ZTF = 20.04.
Data provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility.
