ZTF18acurlbj

177.678197, 24.689759

Discovery Date: 2018-12-09 11:37:59 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58461.48
Disc g-Mag: 17.82±0.08
Latest Date: 2019-01-25 11:22:26 UTC
Latest MJD: 58508.47
Latest r-Mag: 18.88±0.15
Peak Mag 17.45±0.05 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-19 12:07:52
Peak MJD 58471.51
Detection Count 15 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 11:50:42.767, 24:41:23.131
Galactic Coords 219.664660, 76.137870
Ecliptic Coords 167.580517, 21.628991

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018jnf

The transient was discovered on 5th December 2018 at 22:24:57 (MJD 58457.93) by GaiaAlerts as Gaia18dsd with a discovery magnitude of G = 18.69. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.050.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 11504148+2441491; a J=15.32 mag galaxy found in the 2MASS catalogue. It's located 26.03 arcsec S, 17.44 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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