ZTF18abkijya

253.658782, 26.556352

Discovery Date: 2018-07-31 04:29:42 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58330.19
Disc g-Mag: 20.05±0.22
Latest Date: 2018-09-10 03:12:26 UTC
Latest MJD: 58371.13
Latest r-Mag: 19.77±0.16
Peak Mag 19.74±0.13 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-09-01 03:40:15
Peak MJD 58362.15
Detection Count 9 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 16:54:38.108, 26:33:22.868
Galactic Coords 47.223333, 36.316757
Ecliptic Coords 247.569859, 48.731074

Transient Name Server

AT2018lrt

The transient was discovered on 31st July 2018 at 04:29:41 (MJD 58330.19) by ZTF as ZTF18abkijya with a discovery magnitude of g = 20.05..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ16543818%2B2633223; an r=15.80 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.5 arcsec (0.5 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.046 implies a m - M = 36.56.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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