ZTF18acnbkdg

171.286011, 65.507559

Discovery Date: 2018-11-18 12:40:48 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58440.53
Disc r-Mag: 19.65±0.17
Latest Date: 2018-11-28 12:43:33 UTC
Latest MJD: 58450.53
Latest r-Mag: 19.54±0.18
Peak Mag 19.39±0.16 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-25 10:42:18
Peak MJD 58447.45
Detection Count 11 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 11:25:8.643, 65:30:27.212
Galactic Coords 136.449033, 49.294395
Ecliptic Coords 134.321536, 54.090016

Transient Name Server

AT2018jer

The transient was discovered on 18th November 2018 at 10:49:41 (MJD 58440.45) by ZTF as ZTF18acnbkdg with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.63..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASSJ11251023%2B6530234; an r=17.39 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 3.75 arcsec N, 9.91 arcsec W (19.7 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.101 implies a m - M = 38.33.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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