ZTF18abgvdtw

245.226942, 50.464476

Discovery Date: 2018-07-20 04:14:02 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58319.18

Disc g-Mag: 19.28±0.16

Latest Date: 2023-04-27 10:16:31 UTC

Latest MJD: 60061.43

Latest g-Mag: 20.17±0.21

Peak Mag	17.99±0.19 (g-band)
Peak Date	2019-01-22 11:49:09
Peak MJD	58505.49
Detection Count	205 (excluding 33 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	16:20:54.466, 50:27:52.114
Galactic Coords	78.216800, 44.233759
Ecliptic Coords	219.960930, 69.635183

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Transient Name Server

AT2018loa

The transient was discovered on 16th December 2018 at 13:07:12 (MJD 58468.55) by ZTF as ZTF18abgvdtw with a discovery magnitude of g = 18.19..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with SBS1619%2B505; an r=17.07 mag AGN found in the NED/SDSS/MILLIQUAS/VERON catalogues. Its located 0.4" (1.6 Kpc) from the AGN core. A host z=0.265 implies a m - M = 40.65.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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