ZTF18acsxpmp

10.178932, 30.046096

Discovery Date: 2018-12-04 04:19:01 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58456.18
Disc r-Mag: 18.85±0.10
Latest Date: 2019-01-10 03:40:07 UTC
Latest MJD: 58493.15
Latest g-Mag: 20.53±0.21
Peak Mag 18.51±0.08 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-12 06:22:23
Peak MJD 58464.27
Detection Count 11 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 00:40:42.944, 30:02:45.944
Galactic Coords 120.172394, -32.768198
Ecliptic Coords 21.727071, 23.486316

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018jsx

The transient was discovered on 4th December 2018 at 04:19:12 (MJD 58456.18) by ZTF as ZTF18acsxpmp with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.85. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.076.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J004043.08+300242.6; an r=18.75 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 3.27 arcsec N, 1.87 arcsec W from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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