ZTF18aavjqvm

244.341383, 34.806832

Discovery Date: 2019-01-04 12:19:31 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58487.51
Disc g-Mag: 19.74±0.19
Latest Date: 2019-02-27 12:36:49 UTC
Latest MJD: 58541.53
Latest r-Mag: 19.60±0.16
Peak Mag 19.18±0.16 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-01-25 12:20:16
Peak MJD 58508.51
Detection Count 9 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 16:17:21.932, 34:48:24.594
Galactic Coords 56.095035, 45.673159
Ecliptic Coords 231.811194, 54.896029

Transient Name Server

AT2018ljq

The transient was discovered on 24th December 2018 at 12:47:32 (MJD 58476.53) by ZTF as ZTF18aavjqvm with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.74..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASSJ16172203%2B3448257; a 17.40 mag galaxy found in the NED catalogue. It's located 1.5 arcsec (0.8 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.028 implies a m - M = 35.44.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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