ZTF18acsxswl

359.926616, 15.555411

Discovery Date: 2018-12-04 04:21:06 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58456.18
Disc r-Mag: 18.92±0.11
Latest Date: 2019-01-03 02:23:50 UTC
Latest MJD: 58486.10
Latest r-Mag: 19.93±0.17
Peak Mag 18.92±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-04 04:21:06
Peak MJD 58456.18
Detection Count 5 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 23:59:42.388, 15:33:19.479
Galactic Coords 105.013350, -45.508837
Ecliptic Coords 6.251977, 14.272397

Transient Name Server

AT2018kdt

The transient was discovered on 4th December 2018 at 04:21:06 (MJD 58456.18) by ZTF as ZTF18acsxswl with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.92..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSSJ235942.30%2B153321.7; an r=18.18 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 2.20 arcsec S, 1.01 arcsec E (4.3 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.096 implies a m - M = 38.22.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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