ZTF18acsoxld

142.287236, 54.683072

Discovery Date: 2018-12-03 11:21:39 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58455.47
Disc r-Mag: 19.78±0.16
Latest Date: 2018-12-20 12:45:48 UTC
Latest MJD: 58472.53
Latest g-Mag: 20.15±0.19
Peak Mag 19.60±0.13 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-12 12:49:20
Peak MJD 58464.53
Detection Count 8 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 09:29:8.937, 54:40:59.059
Galactic Coords 161.561118, 44.333183
Ecliptic Coords 125.170226, 37.442939

Transient Name Server

AT2018lsx

The transient was discovered on 9th December 2018 at 12:39:00 (MJD 58461.53) by ZTF as ZTF18acsoxld with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.86..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with FGC0897; a J=13.34 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.82 arcsec S, 0.75 arcsec E (1.7 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.045 implies a m - M = 36.50.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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