ZTF18aavrjbx

189.096013, 39.000259

Discovery Date: 2018-06-03 06:00:00 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58272.25
Disc g-Mag: 20.24±0.16
Latest Date: 2023-05-28 08:47:06 UTC
Latest MJD: 60092.37
Latest g-Mag: 19.52±0.16
Peak Mag 17.95±0.16 (r-band)
Peak Date 2020-05-08 05:11:37
Peak MJD 58977.22
Detection Count 458 (excluding 2 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 12:36:23.043, 39:00:0.931
Galactic Coords 136.808040, 77.719517
Ecliptic Coords 169.833353, 38.774986

Transient Name Server

AT2018kks

The transient was discovered on 9th December 2018 at 13:10:31 (MJD 58461.55) by ZTF as ZTF18aavrjbx with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.95..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with FBQSJ123623.0%2B390001; a V=18.14 mag AGN found in the NED/SDSS/MILLIQUAS/GSC/VERON catalogues. Its located 0.3" (1.4 Kpc) from the AGN core. A host z=0.340 implies a m - M = 41.27.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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