ZTF18acybdar

176.083414, 34.514717

Discovery Date: 2018-12-19 12:11:51 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58471.51

Disc g-Mag: 19.75±0.16

Latest Date: 2019-05-15 05:10:31 UTC

Latest MJD: 58618.22

Latest r-Mag: 19.41±0.17

Peak Mag	17.83±0.05 (g-band)
Peak Date	2019-01-03 13:03:41
Peak MJD	58486.54
Detection Count	40 (excluding 1 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	11:44:20.019, 34:30:52.982
Galactic Coords	181.640558, 73.840574
Ecliptic Coords	161.376701, 29.833046

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Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018kku

The transient was discovered on 19th December 2018 at 12:11:51 (MJD 58471.51) by ZTF as ZTF18acybdar with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.07. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.071.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J114420.01+343053.0; an r=19.91 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 0.01 arcsec S, 0.01 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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