ZTF18adbabqv

182.404789, 52.795506

Discovery Date: 2018-12-28 12:08:16 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58480.51
Disc g-Mag: 19.91±0.19
Latest Date: 2019-01-28 10:55:33 UTC
Latest MJD: 58511.46
Latest g-Mag: 20.55±0.20
Peak Mag 19.32±0.14 (g-band)
Peak Date 2019-01-08 11:41:27
Peak MJD 58491.49
Detection Count 8 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 12:09:37.149, 52:47:43.822
Galactic Coords 137.003923, 63.175236
Ecliptic Coords 154.084982, 47.803911

Transient Name Server

AT2018lib

The transient was discovered on 28th December 2018 at 12:08:16 (MJD 58480.51) by ZTF as ZTF18adbabqv with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.91..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with SDSSJ120937.15%2B524742.5; a 18.80 mag galaxy found in the NED catalogue. It's located 1.2 arcsec from the galaxy core.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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