ZTF18adaykvg

127.222738, 1.110751

Discovery Date: 2018-12-28 10:07:48 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58480.42
Disc r-Mag: 18.58±0.11
Latest Date: 2018-12-29 11:28:27 UTC
Latest MJD: 58481.48
Latest r-Mag: 18.62±0.11
Peak Mag 18.14±0.08 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-28 11:26:59
Peak MJD 58480.48
Detection Count 6 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 08:28:53.457, 01:06:38.702
Galactic Coords 223.554253, 22.080473
Ecliptic Coords 129.329194, -17.391606

Transient Name Server

SN Ic SN2018kzr

The transient was discovered on 28th December 2018 at 10:07:40 (MJD 58480.42) by ZTF as ZTF18adaykvg with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.58. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ic at z = 0.053.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSSJ082853.50%2B010638.6; an r=20.62 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 0.10 arcsec S, 0.50 arcsec W from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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