ZTF18acnbptb

182.844568, 5.751410

Discovery Date: 2018-11-15 13:08:28 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58437.55
Disc r-Mag: 18.75±0.13
Latest Date: 2019-01-04 12:42:50 UTC
Latest MJD: 58487.53
Latest r-Mag: 19.61±0.17
Peak Mag 18.74±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-26 12:24:36
Peak MJD 58448.52
Detection Count 6 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 12:11:22.696, 05:45:5.077
Galactic Coords 277.110548, 66.593610
Ecliptic Coords 180.313656, 6.406646

Transient Name Server

SN II SN2018jbj

The transient was discovered on 15th November 2018 at 13:08:28 (MJD 58437.55) by ZTF as ZTF18acnbptb with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.74. It was subsequently classified as a SN II at z = 0.029.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ12112255%2B0545078; an r=16.59 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.6 arcsec (0.4 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.029 implies a m - M = 35.55.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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