ZTF18acvdstg

123.586620, 22.879133

Discovery Date: 2018-12-12 07:37:34 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58464.32
Disc g-Mag: 19.59±0.15
Latest Date: 2019-01-10 06:36:58 UTC
Latest MJD: 58493.28
Latest r-Mag: 19.41±0.13
Peak Mag 18.78±0.15 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-22 08:03:39
Peak MJD 58474.34
Detection Count 9 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 08:14:20.789, 22:52:44.879
Galactic Coords 200.033315, 27.871057
Ecliptic Coords 120.687159, 2.946743

Transient Name Server

AT2018kln

The transient was discovered on 12th December 2018 at 07:37:55 (MJD 58464.32) by ZTF as ZTF18acvdstg with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.59..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ08142076%2B2252448; an r=17.00 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.1 arcsec (0.1 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host distance of 426.0 Mpc(z=0.101) implies a m - M = 38.15.

Difference Image Lightcurve

Access the data from this plot in the ZTF Alert Packet Data table below.