ZTF18acswtoq

327.546797, -3.692319

Discovery Date: 2018-12-04 03:33:53 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58456.15
Disc r-Mag: 16.24±0.03
Latest Date: 2019-06-07 10:33:13 UTC
Latest MJD: 58641.44
Latest g-Mag: 20.30±0.21
Peak Mag 15.74±0.03 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-17 03:00:36
Peak MJD 58469.13
Detection Count 8 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 21:50:11.231, -03:41:32.348
Galactic Coords 53.249030, -40.839202
Ecliptic Coords 328.455574, 8.854389

Transient Name Server

SN Ia-91T-like SN2018jao

The transient was discovered on 26th November 2018 at 06:21:36 (MJD 58448.27) by ATLAS as ATLAS18zmv with a discovery magnitude of orange = 17.70. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia-91T-like at z = 0.028.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 103573275485790331; an r=19.94 mag galaxy found in the PS1 catalogue. It's located 1.63 arcsec S, 6.32 arcsec W from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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