ZTF18abshtou

24.322792, 5.877575

Discovery Date: 2018-10-06 08:33:55 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58397.36
Disc g-Mag: 19.23±0.17
Latest Date: 2023-02-09 03:14:21 UTC
Latest MJD: 59984.13
Latest g-Mag: 18.06±0.09
Peak Mag 16.86±0.06 (r-band)
Peak Date 2023-02-07 04:14:27
Peak MJD 59982.18
Detection Count 54 (excluding 1 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 01:37:17.470, 05:52:39.270
Galactic Coords 143.188909, -55.180526
Ecliptic Coords 24.685219, -3.957748

Transient Name Server

AT2018leb

The transient was discovered on 20th December 2018 at 04:02:54 (MJD 58472.17) by ZTF as ZTF18abshtou with a discovery magnitude of g = 18.84..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with NGC0632; a W1=10.29 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/LASR catalogues. Its located 0.9" (0.1 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 27.0 Mpc(z=0.011) implies a m - M = 32.16.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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