Discovery Date: 2018-12-29 13:13:19 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58481.55
Disc r-Mag: 19.00±0.14
Latest Date: 2019-01-09 13:08:28 UTC
Latest MJD: 58492.55
Latest g-Mag: 19.91±0.20
Transient Name Server
AT2018kic
The transient was discovered on 19th December 2018 at 13:23:31 (MJD 58471.56) by ZTF as ZTF18acyyhgd with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.66..
Sherlock Contextual Classification
Prediction: Supernova
The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ16275572%2B2115160; a J=15.14 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 0.66 arcsec N, 3.80 arcsec W (5.6 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.087 implies a m - M = 38.00.
Difference Image Lightcurve
Access the data from this plot in the ZTF Alert Packet Data table below.