ZTF18abcgryu

242.295094, 68.116789

Discovery Date: 2018-12-24 13:20:31 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58476.56
Disc g-Mag: 19.36±0.16
Latest Date: 2023-06-07 06:23:15 UTC
Latest MJD: 60102.27
Latest g-Mag: 18.93±0.15
Peak Mag 18.54±0.20 (r-band)
Peak Date 2023-01-13 12:25:37
Peak MJD 59957.52
Detection Count 17 (excluding 553 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 16:09:10.822, 68:07:0.440
Galactic Coords 101.337457, 39.705493
Ecliptic Coords 159.045265, 79.306553

Transient Name Server

AT2018kxw

The transient was discovered on 24th December 2018 at 13:20:32 (MJD 58476.56) by ZTF as ZTF18abcgryu with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.36..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ16091081%2B6807005; a 16.20 mag galaxy found in the NED catalogue. Its located 0.3" from the galaxy core.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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