ZTF18abwtops

281.486710, 36.402679

Discovery Date: 2018-09-18 03:36:09 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58379.15
Disc g-Mag: 20.04±0.17
Latest Date: 2018-09-27 04:27:31 UTC
Latest MJD: 58388.19
Latest r-Mag: 19.39±0.17
Peak Mag 19.36±0.10 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-09-27 02:44:51
Peak MJD 58388.11
Detection Count 4 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 18:45:56.810, 36:24:9.643
Galactic Coords 65.773405, 16.724346
Ecliptic Coords 288.196611, 59.118489

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018lqa

The transient was discovered on 15th September 2018 at 05:58:33 (MJD 58376.25) by ZTF as ZTF18abwtops with a discovery magnitude of g = 20.79. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.110.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 151682814872312427; an r=18.84 mag galaxy found in the PS1 catalogue. It's located 4.22 arcsec N, 1.46 arcsec W from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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