ZTF18aakoejg

176.056891, 57.948277

Discovery Date: 2018-06-13 04:53:10 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58282.20
Disc r-Mag: 16.81±0.04
Latest Date: 2021-06-19 05:22:44 UTC
Latest MJD: 59384.22
Latest g-Mag: 17.07±0.09
Peak Mag 15.74±0.03 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-04-18 08:40:52
Peak MJD 58591.36
Detection Count 1 (excluding 6 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 11:44:13.654, 57:56:53.797
Galactic Coords 139.289167, 56.994320
Ecliptic Coords 145.006124, 49.739461

Transient Name Server

AT2018ivr

The transient was discovered on 4th November 2018 at 12:42:33 (MJD 58426.53) by ZTF as ZTF18aakoejg with a discovery magnitude of r = 16.59..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with NGC3838; a V=12.71 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/GSC/LASR/GAIA catalogues. Its located 0.3" (0.0 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 19.4 Mpc(z=0.004) implies a m - M = 31.44.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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