ZTF18aawqwht

224.916006, 33.481939

Discovery Date: 2022-07-15 05:15:31 UTC
Discovery MJD: 59775.22
Disc r-Mag: 18.83±0.13
Latest Date: 2023-05-20 06:55:11 UTC
Latest MJD: 60084.29
Latest r-Mag: 18.65±0.12
Peak Mag 18.57±0.24 (g-band)
Peak Date 2023-05-16 06:54:40
Peak MJD 60080.29
Detection Count 3 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 14:59:39.842, 33:28:54.979
Galactic Coords 53.787949, 61.723885
Ecliptic Coords 208.513327, 47.765815

Transient Name Server

AT2023iyt

The transient was discovered on 16th May 2023 at 06:54:43 (MJD 60080.29) by ZTF as ZTF18aawqwht with a discovery magnitude of g = 18.57..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with SDSSJ145939.83%2B332854.9; an r=16.79 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS/MILLIQUAS catalogues. Its located 0.4" (0.7 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 361.0 Mpc(z=1.000) implies a m - M = 37.79.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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