ZTF18acxijqw

13.615110, 24.628882

Discovery Date: 2018-12-17 04:30:10 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58469.19
Disc g-Mag: 18.64±0.13
Latest Date: 2019-01-10 04:22:33 UTC
Latest MJD: 58493.18
Latest g-Mag: 19.54±0.13
Peak Mag 18.28±0.14 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-29 07:15:21
Peak MJD 58481.30
Detection Count 13 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 00:54:27.626, 24:37:43.975
Galactic Coords 123.806444, -38.237736
Ecliptic Coords 22.286284, 17.291483

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018kgv

The transient was discovered on 17th December 2018 at 04:30:11 (MJD 58469.19) by ZTF as ZTF18acxijqw with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.55. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.080.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J005427+243744.7; a J=16.07 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/2MASS/PS1/GAIA catalogues. It's located 1.35 arcsec S, 0.03 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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