ZTF18aaikyip

210.709680, 57.211046

Discovery Date: 2018-11-26 12:10:46 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58448.51
Disc r-Mag: 18.02±0.08
Latest Date: 2019-01-19 13:21:13 UTC
Latest MJD: 58502.56
Latest r-Mag: 19.57±0.17
Peak Mag 18.00±0.06 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-26 13:18:57
Peak MJD 58448.55
Detection Count 12 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 14:02:50.323, 57:12:39.765
Galactic Coords 105.005564, 57.362599
Ecliptic Coords 170.171781, 61.800832

Transient Name Server

AT2018jdt

The transient was discovered on 26th November 2018 at 12:10:04 (MJD 58448.51) by ZTF as ZTF18aaikyip with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.02..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXiJ1402503%2B571239; an r=16.72 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.5 arcsec (0.5 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 215.0 Mpc(z=0.052) implies a m - M = 36.66.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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