ZTF18acxgoki

350.674848, 21.011963

Discovery Date: 2018-12-17 02:13:52 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58469.09
Disc r-Mag: 19.03±0.08
Latest Date: 2019-01-08 02:30:20 UTC
Latest MJD: 58491.10
Latest r-Mag: 19.08±0.11
Peak Mag 18.71±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-23 03:05:50
Peak MJD 58475.13
Detection Count 9 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 23:22:41.964, 21:00:43.065
Galactic Coords 96.634171, -37.286921
Ecliptic Coords 0.239311, 22.901231

Transient Name Server

SN Ic-BL SN2018keq

The transient was discovered on 17th December 2018 at 02:13:51 (MJD 58469.09) by ZTF as ZTF18acxgoki with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.03. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ic-BL at z = 0.040.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with KUG2320%2B207; a J=14.01 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 0.24 arcsec N, 1.82 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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