ZTF18acsvxum

339.341585, 15.422899

Discovery Date: 2018-12-04 03:09:25 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58456.13
Disc r-Mag: 19.47±0.15
Latest Date: 2018-12-17 02:14:31 UTC
Latest MJD: 58469.09
Latest r-Mag: 20.02±0.18
Peak Mag 19.26±0.17 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-04 03:52:52
Peak MJD 58456.16
Detection Count 3 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 22:37:21.980, 15:25:22.437
Galactic Coords 81.502002, -36.442102
Ecliptic Coords 347.120790, 22.288908

Transient Name Server

AT2018kcy

The transient was discovered on 4th December 2018 at 03:09:25 (MJD 58456.13) by ZTF as ZTF18acsvxum with a discovery magnitude of r = 20.02..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 126503393410148650; an r=19.04 mag galaxy found in the PS1 catalogue. It's located 2.01 arcsec S, 2.02 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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