ZTF18adasopt

82.468021, 19.834096

Discovery Date: 2018-12-28 06:57:00 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58480.29
Disc g-Mag: 19.02±0.14
Latest Date: 2019-02-08 04:35:09 UTC
Latest MJD: 58522.19
Latest r-Mag: 19.65±0.14
Peak Mag 18.17±0.07 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-01-07 04:56:34
Peak MJD 58490.21
Detection Count 20 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 05:29:52.325, 19:50:2.747
Galactic Coords 185.820522, -7.873758
Ecliptic Coords 82.904488, -3.419868

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2018lfb

The transient was discovered on 28th December 2018 at 06:57:36 (MJD 58480.29) by ZTF as ZTF18adasopt with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.02. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.040.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J052952.17+195001.0; a J=15.03 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 2.00 arcsec N, 2.44 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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