ZTF18adacoaj

137.315541, 13.385445

Discovery Date: 2018-12-23 12:23:56 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58475.52

Disc g-Mag: 19.43±0.21

Latest Date: 2019-01-10 11:41:35 UTC

Latest MJD: 58493.49

Latest r-Mag: 19.88±0.17

Peak Mag	19.25±0.13 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-12-29 10:25:25
Peak MJD	58481.43
Detection Count	8 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	09:09:15.730, 13:23:7.601
Galactic Coords	216.138677, 36.542164
Ecliptic Coords	135.727123, -2.863314

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Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018knf

The transient was discovered on 20th December 2018 at 10:37:24 (MJD 58472.44) by ZTF as ZTF18adacoaj with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.43. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.102.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ09091578%2B1323078; an r=16.75 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.4 arcsec (0.7 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.102 implies a m - M = 38.37.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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