ZTF18acurlbt

191.709440, 22.796453

Discovery Date: 2018-12-09 11:39:58 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58461.49
Disc g-Mag: 18.49±0.11
Latest Date: 2019-01-19 13:06:53 UTC
Latest MJD: 58502.55
Latest r-Mag: 19.80±0.22
Peak Mag 18.42±0.07 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-19 12:09:51
Peak MJD 58471.51
Detection Count 12 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 12:46:50.266, 22:47:47.229
Galactic Coords 289.152554, 85.544594
Ecliptic Coords 181.112821, 25.461762

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018jsu

The transient was discovered on 9th December 2018 at 11:39:50 (MJD 58461.49) by ZTF as ZTF18acurlbt with a discovery magnitude of g = 18.49. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.080.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSSJ124649.91%2B224751.7; an r=18.03 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 4.62 arcsec S, 4.72 arcsec E (9.1 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.078 implies a m - M = 37.74.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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