ZTF18aabjgal

134.247380, 51.347314

Discovery Date: 2018-11-18 10:55:01 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58440.45
Disc g-Mag: 17.59±0.08
Latest Date: 2023-01-26 05:47:33 UTC
Latest MJD: 59970.24
Latest r-Mag: 18.18±0.14
Peak Mag 15.18±0.14 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-03-20 03:41:24
Peak MJD 58562.15
Detection Count 3 (excluding 11 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 08:56:59.371, 51:20:50.330
Galactic Coords 167.215550, 40.212178
Ecliptic Coords 121.146388, 32.583669

Transient Name Server

AT2018ivh

The transient was discovered on 9th November 2018 at 12:21:53 (MJD 58431.52) by ZTF as ZTF18aabjgal with a discovery magnitude of r = 17.27..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with NGC2693; an r=13.94 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/PS1/LASR catalogues. Its located 1.1" (0.3 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 53.7 Mpc(z=0.016) implies a m - M = 33.65.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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