ZTF18adbiitu

168.442609, -5.673382

Discovery Date: 2018-12-29 13:01:44 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58481.54
Disc r-Mag: 19.43±0.21
Latest Date: 2019-01-11 11:58:44 UTC
Latest MJD: 58494.50
Latest g-Mag: 19.91±0.15
Peak Mag 19.27±0.18 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-29 13:19:26
Peak MJD 58481.56
Detection Count 7 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 11:13:46.226, -05:40:24.177
Galactic Coords 263.552492, 49.582676
Ecliptic Coords 171.621348, -9.788051

Transient Name Server

AT2018lgh

The transient was discovered on 31st December 2018 at 14:57:07 (MJD 58483.62) by Pan-STARRS as PS18cpk with a discovery magnitude of w = 19.49..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with LCRSB111113.7-052402; an r=18.47 mag galaxy found in the NED/PS1 catalogues. It's located 2.16 arcsec S, 0.81 arcsec E (4.1 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.102 implies a m - M = 38.35.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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