ZTF18acnbqbn

187.512726, 13.085291

Discovery Date: 2018-11-15 13:11:51 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58437.55

Disc r-Mag: 19.21±0.18

Latest Date: 2018-11-26 13:04:42 UTC

Latest MJD: 58448.54

Latest r-Mag: 19.54±0.19

Peak Mag	19.21±0.18 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-11-15 13:11:51
Peak MJD	58437.55
Detection Count	2 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	12:30:3.054, 13:05:7.048
Galactic Coords	282.272718, 75.092468
Ecliptic Coords	181.588839, 14.973757

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Transient Name Server

AT2018jct

The transient was discovered on 15th November 2018 at 13:11:52 (MJD 58437.55) by ZTF as ZTF18acnbqbn with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.69..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with VPC0712; an r=17.47 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.5 arcsec (0.4 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.044 implies a m - M = 36.44.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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