ZTF18acuimze

51.335873, 2.994395

Discovery Date: 2018-12-09 06:09:26 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58461.26
Disc r-Mag: 19.21±0.12
Latest Date: 2019-01-31 03:04:52 UTC
Latest MJD: 58514.13
Latest r-Mag: 19.92±0.17
Peak Mag 18.30±0.12 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-22 07:29:45
Peak MJD 58474.31
Detection Count 15 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 03:25:20.609, 02:59:39.820
Galactic Coords 179.966117, -42.219220
Ecliptic Coords 49.719673, -15.203095

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018jte

The transient was discovered on 9th December 2018 at 06:10:04 (MJD 58461.26) by ZTF as ZTF18acuimze with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.21. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.056.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with MCG%2B00-09-083; a 16.00 mag galaxy found in the NED catalogue. It's located 1.3 arcsec from the galaxy core.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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