ZTF18acuscrr

123.130179, 38.416721

Discovery Date: 2018-12-09 12:25:01 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58461.52
Disc r-Mag: 19.48±0.14
Latest Date: 2019-02-08 05:21:27 UTC
Latest MJD: 58522.22
Latest r-Mag: 20.38±0.19
Peak Mag 18.49±0.08 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-20 12:06:20
Peak MJD 58472.50
Detection Count 14 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 08:12:31.243, 38:25:0.196
Galactic Coords 182.646542, 31.663332
Ecliptic Coords 116.761271, 18.005321

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018jst

The transient was discovered on 9th December 2018 at 12:24:28 (MJD 58461.52) by ZTF as ZTF18acuscrr with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.48. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.070.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSSJ081231.12%2B382456.1; an r=18.33 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 3.93 arcsec N, 1.35 arcsec E (6.3 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.080 implies a m - M = 37.79.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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