ZTF18acurlbl

184.602522, 27.890877

Discovery Date: 2018-12-09 11:37:59 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58461.48
Disc g-Mag: 19.44±0.20
Latest Date: 2019-01-11 13:05:13 UTC
Latest MJD: 58494.55
Latest r-Mag: 20.04±0.15
Peak Mag 19.02±0.09 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-19 12:07:52
Peak MJD 58471.51
Detection Count 17 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 12:18:24.605, 27:53:27.156
Galactic Coords 205.087486, 82.638469
Ecliptic Coords 172.179209, 27.219408

Transient Name Server

AT2018jvu

The transient was discovered on 9th December 2018 at 11:37:59 (MJD 58461.48) by ZTF as ZTF18acurlbl with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.14..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ12182433%2B2753291; a J=15.17 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.98 arcsec S, 3.58 arcsec E (7.2 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.103 implies a m - M = 38.38.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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