ZTF18aafratb

130.127879, 17.956426

Discovery Date: 2018-11-26 10:50:41 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58448.45
Disc r-Mag: 19.21±0.18
Latest Date: 2018-12-03 10:57:02 UTC
Latest MJD: 58455.46
Latest r-Mag: 19.55±0.17
Peak Mag 19.21±0.18 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-26 10:50:41
Peak MJD 58448.45
Detection Count 2 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 08:40:30.691, 17:57:23.133
Galactic Coords 207.820169, 31.902270
Ecliptic Coords 127.815155, -0.371006

Transient Name Server

AT2018jin

The transient was discovered on 25th November 2018 at 10:53:41 (MJD 58447.45) by ZTF as ZTF18aafratb with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.21..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ08403064%2B1757227; an r=16.42 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.6 arcsec (1.3 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.115 implies a m - M = 38.63.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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