ZTF18adackbh

136.021082, 57.093038

Discovery Date: 2018-12-23 12:13:55 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58475.51
Disc g-Mag: 19.30±0.20
Latest Date: 2019-01-08 06:08:04 UTC
Latest MJD: 58491.26
Latest r-Mag: 19.47±0.18
Peak Mag 19.26±0.14 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-28 10:17:59
Peak MJD 58480.43
Detection Count 7 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 09:04:5.060, 57:05:34.936
Galactic Coords 159.563001, 40.338627
Ecliptic Coords 119.892382, 38.331842

Transient Name Server

AT2018lds

The transient was discovered on 28th December 2018 at 10:17:59 (MJD 58480.43) by ZTF as ZTF18adackbh with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.26..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ09040414%2B5705315; a J=14.14 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 3.38 arcsec N, 7.45 arcsec E (7.2 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.046 implies a m - M = 36.56.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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