ZTF18acsycdi

28.825812, 5.492874

Discovery Date: 2018-12-04 04:35:02 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58456.19
Disc r-Mag: 19.53±0.16
Latest Date: 2019-01-04 02:58:02 UTC
Latest MJD: 58487.12
Latest r-Mag: 19.96±0.17
Peak Mag 19.15±0.20 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-10 06:37:15
Peak MJD 58462.28
Detection Count 5 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 01:55:18.195, 05:29:34.346
Galactic Coords 150.630026, -53.908641
Ecliptic Coords 28.748742, -5.916776

Transient Name Server

AT2018jkr

The transient was discovered on 4th December 2018 at 04:35:02 (MJD 58456.19) by ZTF as ZTF18acsycdi with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.49..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with WISEAJ015519.37%2B052759.4; a W1=14.55 mag galaxy found in the NED/LASR catalogues. It's located 95.30 arcsec N, 15.30 arcsec W (42.7 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.022 implies a m - M = 34.89.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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