ZTF18adbclta

29.264739, 13.022691

Discovery Date: 2018-12-29 06:29:58 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58481.27
Disc g-Mag: 19.09±0.15
Latest Date: 2019-01-27 02:44:27 UTC
Latest MJD: 58510.11
Latest r-Mag: 20.08±0.14
Peak Mag 19.00±0.08 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-01-07 03:56:01
Peak MJD 58490.16
Detection Count 8 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 01:57:3.537, 13:01:21.687
Galactic Coords 146.636227, -46.806573
Ecliptic Coords 31.781717, 0.990811

Transient Name Server

AT2018lda

The transient was discovered on 31st December 2018 at 07:32:09 (MJD 58483.31) by ATLAS as ATLAS18bcik with a discovery magnitude of orange = 19.05..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ01570289%2B1301090; a J=13.55 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 12.61 arcsec N, 9.46 arcsec E (24.5 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host distance of 322.0 Mpc(z=0.076) implies a m - M = 37.54.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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