ZTF18acvgrmd

198.480398, 62.610399

Discovery Date: 2018-12-12 11:50:38 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58464.49

Disc g-Mag: 19.69±0.16

Latest Date: 2019-01-03 11:43:07 UTC

Latest MJD: 58486.49

Latest r-Mag: 19.41±0.10

Peak Mag	18.90±0.09 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-12-24 12:39:22
Peak MJD	58476.53
Detection Count	5 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	13:13:55.296, 62:36:37.436
Galactic Coords	118.500740, 54.323986
Ecliptic Coords	153.305033, 60.766469

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Transient Name Server

AT2018kfb

The transient was discovered on 12th December 2018 at 11:50:38 (MJD 58464.49) by ZTF as ZTF18acvgrmd with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.47..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with MCG%2B11-16-013; a J=13.15 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.82 arcsec S, 6.03 arcsec E (4.4 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.035 implies a m - M = 35.93.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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