ZTF18aaxxota

247.695332, 20.353100

Discovery Date: 2018-06-04 08:00:18 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58273.33
Disc r-Mag: 19.71±0.15
Latest Date: 2018-07-12 04:33:06 UTC
Latest MJD: 58311.19
Latest r-Mag: 19.75±0.16
Peak Mag 19.71±0.15 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-06-04 08:00:18
Peak MJD 58273.33
Detection Count 6 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 16:30:46.880, 20:21:11.159
Galactic Coords 37.655089, 39.728854
Ecliptic Coords 241.577601, 41.616635

Transient Name Server

AT2018lro

The transient was discovered on 4th June 2018 at 08:00:17 (MJD 58273.33) by ZTF as ZTF18aaxxota with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.71..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with CGCG109-027; a J=12.56 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 8.17 arcsec S, 3.85 arcsec W (6.4 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.036 implies a m - M = 35.99.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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