ZTF18aaxkort

248.967076, 71.481536

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

Discovery MJD: 58269.25

Disc g-Mag: 19.42±0.19

Latest Date: 2023-09-25 05:12:43 UTC

Latest MJD: 60212.22

Latest g-Mag: 19.22±0.20

Peak Mag	16.98±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date	2019-08-26 06:32:36
Peak MJD	58721.27
Detection Count	225 (excluding 204 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	16:35:52.098, 71:28:53.531
Galactic Coords	103.873439, 36.157000
Ecliptic Coords	137.298529, 81.076682

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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.