ZTF18aayxxew

197.139645, 45.986209

Discovery Date: 2018-06-10 04:14:24 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58279.18
Disc r-Mag: 20.06±0.14
Latest Date: 2018-07-01 04:44:41 UTC
Latest MJD: 58300.20
Latest g-Mag: 20.36±0.18
Peak Mag 19.80±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-06-13 04:56:31
Peak MJD 58282.21
Detection Count 8 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 13:08:33.515, 45:59:10.351
Galactic Coords 113.841534, 70.838669
Ecliptic Coords 171.587129, 47.840562

Transient Name Server

SN II SN2018lth

The transient was discovered on 9th June 2018 at 04:53:45 (MJD 58278.20) by ZTF as ZTF18aayxxew with a discovery magnitude of g = 20.19. It was subsequently classified as a SN II at z = 0.061.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J130833.53+455910.1; an r=20.13 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 0.23 arcsec N, 0.18 arcsec W from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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