ZTF18aczapdk

11.837540, 0.874402

Discovery Date: 2018-12-20 02:34:02 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58472.11

Disc r-Mag: 19.22±0.14

Latest Date: 2019-01-04 02:21:32 UTC

Latest MJD: 58487.10

Latest r-Mag: 19.72±0.13

Peak Mag	19.07±0.17 (g-band)
Peak Date	2018-12-20 04:25:44
Peak MJD	58472.18
Detection Count	7 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	00:47:21.010, 00:52:27.847
Galactic Coords	120.756401, -61.980080
Ecliptic Coords	11.227402, -3.875469

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Transient Name Server

AT2018kgu

The transient was discovered on 12th December 2018 at 06:29:38 (MJD 58464.27) by ZTF as ZTF18aczapdk with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.57..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ00472129%2B0052396; a J=14.07 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 11.78 arcsec S, 4.34 arcsec W (24.1 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host distance of 401.0 Mpc(z=0.103) implies a m - M = 38.02.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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