ZTF18acxwtyx

128.038254, -10.491210

Discovery Date: 2018-12-17 11:21:43 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58469.47
Disc r-Mag: 18.90±0.09
Latest Date: 2019-01-04 10:41:36 UTC
Latest MJD: 58487.45
Latest g-Mag: 19.57±0.13
Peak Mag 18.75±0.09 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-20 11:06:29
Peak MJD 58472.46
Detection Count 8 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 08:32:9.181, -10:29:28.356
Galactic Coords 234.559013, 16.815018
Ecliptic Coords 133.516668, -28.366592

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018khd

The transient was discovered on 17th December 2018 at 11:21:44 (MJD 58469.47) by ZTF as ZTF18acxwtyx with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.90. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.090.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 95411280367391270; an r=23.45 mag galaxy found in the PS1 catalogue. It's located 0.90 arcsec S, 5.60 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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