ZTF18acusegd

120.029835, 58.709751

Discovery Date: 2018-12-09 12:28:22 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58461.52

Disc r-Mag: 17.93±0.07

Latest Date: 2019-05-03 03:53:31 UTC

Latest MJD: 58606.16

Latest g-Mag: 20.11±0.19

Peak Mag	16.05±0.04 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-12-22 07:51:14
Peak MJD	58474.33
Detection Count	71 (excluding 3 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	08:00:7.160, 58:42:35.104
Galactic Coords	158.629905, 31.743551
Ecliptic Coords	109.056123, 37.241009

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Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018jov

The transient was discovered on 8th December 2018 at 13:59:31 (MJD 58460.58) by ATLAS as ATLAS18bbdt with a discovery magnitude of cyan = 18.71. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.019.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SBS0755+588; a W1=13.52 mag galaxy found in the LASR catalogue. It's located 7.30 arcsec S, 7.00 arcsec W (3.9 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.019 implies a m - M = 34.61.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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