ZTF23aajsbef

227.272352, 33.786324

Discovery Date: 2023-05-14 08:14:07 UTC
Discovery MJD: 60078.34
Disc g-Mag: 20.61±0.25
Latest Date: 2023-05-29 10:22:48 UTC
Latest MJD: 60093.43
Latest g-Mag: 19.62±0.12
Peak Mag 19.31±0.10 (r-band)
Peak Date 2023-05-24 06:25:20
Peak MJD 60088.27
Detection Count 10 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 15:09:5.364, 33:47:10.765
Galactic Coords 54.140632, 59.746080
Ecliptic Coords 211.007881, 48.856440

Transient Name Server

AT2023iyl

The transient was discovered on 14th May 2023 at 08:13:55 (MJD 60078.34) by ZTF as ZTF23aajsbef with a discovery magnitude of g = 20.61..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with SDSS J150905.25+334710.9; an r=16.87 mag galaxy found in the SDSS catalogue. Its located 1.3" (2.7 Kpc) from the galaxy core. A host z=0.111 implies a m - M = 38.56.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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