ZTF18acwyowc

206.952768, 35.058808

Discovery Date: 2018-12-16 12:47:13 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58468.53
Disc r-Mag: 20.07±0.17
Latest Date: 2019-02-08 12:46:11 UTC
Latest MJD: 58522.53
Latest r-Mag: 19.82±0.20
Peak Mag 18.00±0.07 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-30 12:52:48
Peak MJD 58482.54
Detection Count 18 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 13:47:48.664, 35:03:31.710
Galactic Coords 69.749639, 75.582747
Ecliptic Coords 188.719988, 42.423085

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018kfd

The transient was discovered on 16th December 2018 at 12:47:13 (MJD 58468.53) by ZTF as ZTF18acwyowc with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.69. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.076.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ13474811%2B3503279; a J=14.81 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 3.72 arcsec N, 6.73 arcsec E (10.3 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.075 implies a m - M = 37.64.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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