ZTF18ackaxnw

7.834172, 30.792989

Discovery Date: 2018-11-19 07:13:39 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58441.30
Disc r-Mag: 18.38±0.10
Latest Date: 2019-01-03 02:25:47 UTC
Latest MJD: 58486.10
Latest r-Mag: 19.55±0.12
Peak Mag 17.92±0.06 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-25 07:51:57
Peak MJD 58447.33
Detection Count 7 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 00:31:20.201, 30:47:34.759
Galactic Coords 117.848056, -31.880259
Ecliptic Coords 20.078728, 25.031587

Transient Name Server

AT2018iya

The transient was discovered on 13th November 2018 at 06:25:18 (MJD 58435.27) by ZTF as ZTF18ackaxnw with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.99..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with NGC0140; a J=11.79 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/LASR/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.81 arcsec N, 3.71 arcsec W (1.6 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.021 implies a m - M = 34.85.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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