ZTF18acynkoa

359.236147, 0.434106

Discovery Date: 2018-12-19 03:28:42 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58471.14
Disc r-Mag: 18.92±0.20
Latest Date: 2019-01-08 02:27:03 UTC
Latest MJD: 58491.10
Latest r-Mag: 19.86±0.19
Peak Mag 18.92±0.20 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-19 03:28:42
Peak MJD 58471.14
Detection Count 3 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 23:56:56.675, 00:26:2.780
Galactic Coords 95.298230, -59.481905
Ecliptic Coords 359.471848, 0.702123

Transient Name Server

AT2018jsi

The transient was discovered on 12th December 2018 at 06:38:52 (MJD 58464.28) by ATLAS as ATLAS18bbta with a discovery magnitude of orange = 19.18..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with SDSSJ235656.66%2B002602.6; an r=17.65 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.2 arcsec (0.3 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.093 implies a m - M = 38.15.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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