ZTF18acueief

223.325437, 9.171030

Discovery Date: 2018-12-20 12:26:07 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58472.52

Disc g-Mag: 19.68±0.20

Latest Date: 2019-01-04 13:08:51 UTC

Latest MJD: 58487.55

Latest r-Mag: 19.65±0.17

Peak Mag	19.23±0.13 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-12-24 12:54:45
Peak MJD	58476.54
Detection Count	4 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	14:53:18.105, 09:10:15.707
Galactic Coords	6.745238, 56.096438
Ecliptic Coords	217.850161, 24.561684

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Transient Name Server

AT2018kts

The transient was discovered on 20th December 2018 at 12:26:08 (MJD 58472.52) by ZTF as ZTF18acueief with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.68..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ14531829%2B0910173; a J=13.96 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.63 arcsec S, 2.82 arcsec W (5.2 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.085 implies a m - M = 37.95.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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