ZTF18aczenvx

163.730518, 27.802430

Discovery Date: 2018-12-20 12:29:01 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58472.52
Disc g-Mag: 20.11±0.18
Latest Date: 2019-01-11 12:30:25 UTC
Latest MJD: 58494.52
Latest g-Mag: 19.46±0.09
Peak Mag 18.96±0.12 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-30 12:06:19
Peak MJD 58482.50
Detection Count 12 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 10:54:55.324, 27:48:8.747
Galactic Coords 204.636665, 64.206017
Ecliptic Coords 154.068406, 19.229983

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018kyb

The transient was discovered on 24th December 2018 at 12:05:15 (MJD 58476.50) by ZTF as ZTF18aczenvx with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.45. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.118.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ10545523%2B2748080; an r=16.64 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.9 arcsec (1.9 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.118 implies a m - M = 38.70.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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