ZTF18aahiczn

168.798527, 17.262558

Discovery Date: 2018-11-12 11:37:46 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58434.48

Disc r-Mag: 17.28±0.07

Latest Date: 2023-05-18 05:47:33 UTC

Latest MJD: 60082.24

Latest g-Mag: 15.95±0.02

Peak Mag	15.87±0.04 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-11-27 10:55:20
Peak MJD	58449.46
Detection Count	3 (excluding 7 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	11:15:11.646, 17:15:45.210
Galactic Coords	231.858593, 65.694855
Ecliptic Coords	162.896868, 11.447639

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Transient Name Server

AT2018jcw

The transient was discovered on 12th November 2018 at 11:37:45 (MJD 58434.48) by ZTF as ZTF18aahiczn with a discovery magnitude of r = 17.28..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with NGC3598; a G=15.90 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/GAIA/PS1/LASR catalogues. Its located 0.2" (0.1 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.021 implies a m - M = 34.75.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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