ZTF18aabilqu

115.636774, 49.809749

Discovery Date: 2018-08-30 12:18:49 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58360.51

Disc r-Mag: 16.08±0.04

Latest Date: 2023-03-18 04:50:32 UTC

Latest MJD: 60021.20

Latest g-Mag: 16.51±0.06

Peak Mag	15.24±0.04 (r-band)
Peak Date	2021-02-06 05:13:28
Peak MJD	59251.22
Detection Count	820 (excluding 122 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	07:42:32.826, 49:48:35.096
Galactic Coords	168.602386, 28.382111
Ecliptic Coords	108.434481, 27.998197

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Transient Name Server

AT2018ief

The transient was discovered on 6th October 2018 at 11:23:47 (MJD 58397.47) by ZTF as ZTF18aabilqu with a discovery magnitude of g = 17.98..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with UGC03973; a G=15.23 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/MILLIQUAS/GAIA/PS1/VERON catalogues. Its located 0.4" (0.2 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 90.5 Mpc(z=0.022) implies a m - M = 34.78.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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