ZTF18abqbavl

255.873906, 41.645216

Discovery Date: 2018-08-26 05:22:20 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58356.22
Disc r-Mag: 19.83±0.19
Latest Date: 2018-09-16 03:56:06 UTC
Latest MJD: 58377.16
Latest r-Mag: 20.06±0.19
Peak Mag 19.61±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-09-01 03:45:05
Peak MJD 58362.16
Detection Count 12 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 17:03:29.737, 41:38:42.777
Galactic Coords 66.194098, 37.213912
Ecliptic Coords 245.519361, 63.888808

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018lpy

The transient was discovered on 19th August 2018 at 05:38:24 (MJD 58349.24) by ZTF as ZTF18abqbavl with a discovery magnitude of r = 20.55. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.139.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSSJ170329.48%2B413841.3; an r=19.24 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.43 arcsec N, 2.92 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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