ZTF18acuixmb

34.814810, 16.761041

Discovery Date: 2018-12-09 06:16:47 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58461.26
Disc r-Mag: 19.28±0.10
Latest Date: 2019-01-27 02:43:46 UTC
Latest MJD: 58510.11
Latest r-Mag: 19.76±0.15
Peak Mag 18.19±0.07 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-24 07:08:45
Peak MJD 58476.30
Detection Count 14 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 02:19:15.555, 16:45:39.749
Galactic Coords 151.350179, -41.214286
Ecliptic Coords 38.094278, 2.701418

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018jsy

The transient was discovered on 9th December 2018 at 06:17:16 (MJD 58461.26) by ZTF as ZTF18acuixmb with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.28. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.057.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J021915.51+164542.4; an r=18.26 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 2.76 arcsec S, 0.70 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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