ZTF18acwtuvz

358.695963, 28.725210

Discovery Date: 2018-12-16 06:18:54 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58468.26
Disc r-Mag: 19.03±0.12
Latest Date: 2019-01-03 02:25:07 UTC
Latest MJD: 58486.10
Latest r-Mag: 19.56±0.17
Peak Mag 18.90±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-22 03:14:38
Peak MJD 58474.14
Detection Count 4 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 23:54:47.031, 28:43:30.757
Galactic Coords 108.189322, -32.519488
Ecliptic Coords 11.154234, 26.672424

Transient Name Server

AT2018kdd

The transient was discovered on 12th December 2018 at 06:24:21 (MJD 58464.27) by ZTF as ZTF18acwtuvz with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.03..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ23544712%2B2843329; a J=15.68 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.43 arcsec S, 0.44 arcsec W (2.1 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.075 implies a m - M = 37.66.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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