ZTF18aaxkort

248.967146, 71.481533

Discovery Date: 2018-05-31 06:00:00 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58269.25

Disc g-Mag: 19.42±0.19

Latest Date: 2023-05-28 06:18:05 UTC

Latest MJD: 60092.26

Latest r-Mag: 18.70±0.08

Peak Mag	16.98±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date	2019-08-26 06:32:36
Peak MJD	58721.27
Detection Count	225 (excluding 173 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	16:35:52.115, 71:28:53.517
Galactic Coords	103.873424, 36.156981
Ecliptic Coords	137.298496, 81.076704

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Transient Name Server

AT2018kyn

The transient was discovered on 24th December 2018 at 12:43:32 (MJD 58476.53) by ZTF as ZTF18aaxkort with a discovery magnitude of r = 17.96..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ16355210%2B7128540; a 16.60 mag AGN found in the NED/MILLIQUAS/VERON catalogues. Its located 0.2" (0.5 Kpc) from the AGN core. A host z=0.171 implies a m - M = 39.58.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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