ZTF18accnjzs

133.708428, 51.290175

Discovery Date: 2018-11-03 11:52:38 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58425.49
Disc r-Mag: 19.22±0.18
Latest Date: 2018-12-19 12:46:54 UTC
Latest MJD: 58471.53
Latest r-Mag: 19.48±0.16
Peak Mag 19.11±0.15 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-09 12:20:29
Peak MJD 58431.51
Detection Count 4 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 08:54:50.023, 51:17:24.632
Galactic Coords 167.332419, 39.882450
Ecliptic Coords 120.791211, 32.419366

Transient Name Server

AT2018kfl

The transient was discovered on 12th December 2018 at 12:43:47 (MJD 58464.53) by ZTF as ZTF18accnjzs with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.47..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ08545006%2B5117245; an r=15.62 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.6 arcsec (0.9 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 341.0 Mpc(z=0.072) implies a m - M = 37.66.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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