ZTF18abnpdqe

297.879634, 10.956018

Discovery Date: 2018-08-18 05:12:11 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58348.22
Disc r-Mag: 18.46±0.10
Latest Date: 2023-03-18 11:39:13 UTC
Latest MJD: 60021.49
Latest r-Mag: 15.79±0.03
Peak Mag 15.44±0.04 (g-band)
Peak Date 2020-09-02 04:56:24
Peak MJD 59094.21
Detection Count 275 (excluding 330 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 19:51:31.112, 10:57:21.664
Galactic Coords 49.669746, -8.035239
Ecliptic Coords 302.500746, 31.303528

Transient Name Server

AT2018jqn

The transient was discovered on 8th December 2018 at 02:31:12 (MJD 58460.11) by GaiaAlerts as Gaia18dsw with a discovery magnitude of G = 15.64..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Cataclysmic Variable

The transient is synonymous with 6836; an r=17.81 mag cv found in the DOWNES/RITTER/PS1 catalogues. Its located 0.1" from the cv core.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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