ZTF18achphjo

40.303515, 8.719359

Discovery Date: 2018-11-12 07:17:37 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58434.30
Disc r-Mag: 18.90±0.19
Latest Date: 2019-12-16 08:20:21 UTC
Latest MJD: 58833.35
Latest r-Mag: 18.61±0.18
Peak Mag 18.61±0.18 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-12-16 08:20:21
Peak MJD 58833.35
Detection Count 3 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 02:41:12.844, 08:43:9.693
Galactic Coords 163.351323, -45.363373
Ecliptic Coords 40.635287, -6.617333

Transient Name Server

AT2018mcg

The transient was discovered on 5th November 2018 at 07:12:00 (MJD 58427.30) by ZTF as ZTF18achphjo with a discovery magnitude of g = 18.83..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 118460403035643726; an r=15.14 mag galaxy found in the PS1/LASR catalogues. It's located 0.1 arcsec (0.1 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.020 implies a m - M = 34.71.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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