ZTF18adalarn

164.967548, 19.794947

Discovery Date: 2018-12-24 12:04:35 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58476.50
Disc r-Mag: 19.47±0.16
Latest Date: 2019-03-25 05:36:41 UTC
Latest MJD: 58567.23
Latest r-Mag: 20.53±0.18
Peak Mag 17.29±0.05 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-01-08 12:40:11
Peak MJD 58491.53
Detection Count 22 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 10:59:52.211, 19:47:41.809
Galactic Coords 222.955598, 63.449535
Ecliptic Coords 158.463945, 12.335526

Transient Name Server

SN Ia-pec SN2018las

The transient was discovered on 24th December 2018 at 12:04:34 (MJD 58476.50) by ZTF as ZTF18adalarn with a discovery magnitude of r = 17.75. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia-pec at z = 0.027.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with SDSSJ105952.18%2B194741.5; an r=16.35 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS catalogues. It's located 0.4 arcsec (0.2 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.027 implies a m - M = 35.40.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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