ZTF18aaaokus

166.697739, 72.568719

Discovery Date: 2018-06-14 05:15:10 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58283.22
Disc r-Mag: 17.35±0.07
Latest Date: 2023-03-18 06:41:56 UTC
Latest MJD: 60021.28
Latest g-Mag: 15.85±0.04
Peak Mag 14.29±0.07 (g-band)
Peak Date 2020-04-30 05:17:59
Peak MJD 58969.22
Detection Count 767 (excluding 6 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 11:06:47.457, 72:34:7.390
Galactic Coords 133.235621, 42.402680
Ecliptic Coords 123.362633, 57.987389

Transient Name Server

AT2018hvb

The transient was discovered on 14th June 2018 at 05:15:21 (MJD 58283.22) by ZTF as ZTF18aaaokus with a discovery magnitude of r = 17.35..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with NGC3516; a G=14.37 mag galaxy found in the NED/NED_D/MILLIQUAS/GAIA/PS1/LASR/VERON catalogues. Its located 0.2" (0.1 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 63.0 Mpc(z=0.009) implies a m - M = 34.00.

Difference Image Lightcurve

Access the data from this plot in the ZTF Alert Packet Data table below.