ZTF18acynmcp

7.288483, -0.105373

Discovery Date: 2018-12-20 02:34:02 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58472.11
Disc r-Mag: 18.34±0.08
Latest Date: 2019-01-08 02:47:55 UTC
Latest MJD: 58491.12
Latest r-Mag: 18.90±0.11
Peak Mag 18.04±0.06 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-20 04:25:44
Peak MJD 58472.18
Detection Count 9 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 00:29:9.236, -00:06:19.343
Galactic Coords 110.815292, -62.451727
Ecliptic Coords 6.651064, -2.989409

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018kil

The transient was discovered on 20th December 2018 at 02:34:04 (MJD 58472.11) by ZTF as ZTF18acynmcp with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.34. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.069.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with SDSSJ002909.19-000619.2; an r=18.97 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.6 arcsec (0.7 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.069 implies a m - M = 37.45.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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