ZTF18adbcjkb

40.574264, -13.129785

Discovery Date: 2018-12-29 06:25:21 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58481.27
Disc g-Mag: 19.31±0.20
Latest Date: 2019-01-27 02:38:29 UTC
Latest MJD: 58510.11
Latest r-Mag: 19.41±0.16
Peak Mag 18.76±0.09 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-01-04 02:52:07
Peak MJD 58487.12
Detection Count 7 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 02:42:17.823, -13:07:47.224
Galactic Coords 190.071399, -60.559472
Ecliptic Coords 33.564622, -27.411424

Transient Name Server

AT2018lij

The transient was discovered on 29th December 2018 at 07:06:08 (MJD 58481.30) by ZTF as ZTF18adbcjkb with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.21..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with 2MASXJ02421774-1307467; a 18.29 mag galaxy found in the NED catalogue. It's located 1.0 arcsec from the galaxy core.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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