ZTF23aaaairl

10.788455, 41.283931

Discovery Date: 2023-01-07 03:18:17 UTC

Discovery MJD: 59951.14

Disc g-Mag: 17.48±0.04

Latest Date: 2023-02-09 02:40:32 UTC

Latest MJD: 59984.11

Latest r-Mag: 19.57±0.21

Peak Mag	17.15±0.04 (g-band)
Peak Date	2023-01-12 06:45:29
Peak MJD	59956.28
Detection Count	12 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	00:43:9.229, 41:17:2.151
Galactic Coords	121.258687, -21.560904
Ecliptic Coords	27.940131, 33.325551

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Transient Name Server

AT2023ax

The transient was discovered on 6th January 2023 at 12:22:43 (MJD 59950.52) by XOSS as XM94MZ with a discovery magnitude of Clear = 18.80..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with MESSIER031; a 4.36 mag galaxy found in the NED_D catalogue. Its located 53.64" N, 280.86" E (1.0 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host distance of 0.7 Mpc implies a m - M = 24.36.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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