ZTF18acrdhcf

139.331863, 11.628500

Discovery Date: 2018-11-25 10:54:19 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58447.45
Disc r-Mag: 18.53±0.20
Latest Date: 2018-12-03 12:28:33 UTC
Latest MJD: 58455.52
Latest r-Mag: 18.57±0.14
Peak Mag 18.53±0.20 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-25 10:54:19
Peak MJD 58447.45
Detection Count 2 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 09:17:19.647, 11:37:42.599
Galactic Coords 219.170309, 37.596173
Ecliptic Coords 138.133517, -3.954783

Transient Name Server

AT2018jir

The transient was discovered on 25th November 2018 at 10:54:20 (MJD 58447.45) by ZTF as ZTF18acrdhcf with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.57..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ09171966%2B1137436; an r=15.64 mag galaxy found in the NED/NED_D/SDSS/MILLIQUAS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 0.7 arcsec (0.4 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 139.0 Mpc(z=0.038) implies a m - M = 35.72.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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