ZTF18aczdetq

162.954663, 77.571498

Discovery Date: 2018-12-20 10:06:33 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58472.42
Disc r-Mag: 19.35±0.18
Latest Date: 2019-02-10 11:16:53 UTC
Latest MJD: 58524.47
Latest r-Mag: 20.19±0.21
Peak Mag 18.84±0.09 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-01-08 06:13:43
Peak MJD 58491.26
Detection Count 16 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 10:51:49.119, 77:34:17.394
Galactic Coords 130.724592, 37.686385
Ecliptic Coords 114.750317, 60.561814

Transient Name Server

AT2018kii

The transient was discovered on 20th December 2018 at 10:06:33 (MJD 58472.42) by ZTF as ZTF18aczdetq with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.57..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with UGC05938; a J=12.97 mag galaxy found in the NED/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.90 arcsec S, 3.30 arcsec W (2.6 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.035 implies a m - M = 35.96.

Difference Image Lightcurve

Access the data from this plot in the ZTF Alert Packet Data table below.