ZTF18aavtnuo

228.676923, 43.253967

Discovery Date: 2018-06-13 06:21:22 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58282.26
Disc g-Mag: 20.59±0.19
Latest Date: 2023-05-15 08:48:32 UTC
Latest MJD: 60079.37
Latest g-Mag: 20.32±0.16
Peak Mag 18.79±0.10 (g-band)
Peak Date 2020-05-09 04:44:06
Peak MJD 58978.20
Detection Count 391 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 15:14:42.461, 43:15:14.282
Galactic Coords 71.557025, 56.936962
Ecliptic Coords 205.488347, 57.807339

Transient Name Server

AT2018lon

The transient was discovered on 20th December 2018 at 11:43:09 (MJD 58472.49) by ZTF as ZTF18aavtnuo with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.56..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with SDSSJ151442.41%2B431514.2; an r=18.07 mag AGN found in the NED/SDSS/MILLIQUAS/VERON catalogues. Its located 0.4" (2.5 Kpc) from the AGN core. A host z=0.436 implies a m - M = 41.91.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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