ZTF18aakcrhu

189.452016, 9.389778

Discovery Date: 2018-12-13 13:05:25 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58465.55
Disc g-Mag: 19.79±0.17
Latest Date: 2023-05-25 06:09:59 UTC
Latest MJD: 60089.26
Latest g-Mag: 20.01±0.20
Peak Mag 19.20±0.21 (r-band)
Peak Date 2020-11-20 12:35:14
Peak MJD 59173.52
Detection Count 42 (excluding 32 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 12:37:48.484, 09:23:23.202
Galactic Coords 292.009650, 71.971889
Ecliptic Coords 184.918758, 12.364813

Transient Name Server

AT2018kst

The transient was discovered on 19th December 2018 at 12:05:54 (MJD 58471.50) by ZTF as ZTF18aakcrhu with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.91..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with [VCV96]Q1235%2B0939; a 17.60 mag AGN found in the NED/MILLIQUAS catalogues. Its located 0.4" (1.0 Kpc) from the AGN core. A host z=0.125 implies a m - M = 38.84.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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