ZTF23aakawpn

213.837938, -2.444812

Discovery Date: 2023-05-17 06:33:46 UTC
Discovery MJD: 60081.27
Disc r-Mag: 19.79±0.15
Latest Date: 2023-06-05 05:39:09 UTC
Latest MJD: 60100.24
Latest r-Mag: 17.87±0.05
Peak Mag 17.49±0.06 (g-band)
Peak Date 2023-05-30 07:34:04
Peak MJD 60094.32
Detection Count 16 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 14:15:21.105, -02:26:41.324
Galactic Coords 340.599742, 54.172992
Ecliptic Coords 212.437089, 10.495704

Transient Name Server

SN Ia SN2023jgu

The transient was discovered on 23rd May 2023 at 08:23:34 (MJD 60087.35) by ZTF as ZTF23aakawpn with a discovery magnitude of r = 18.05. It was subsequently classified as a SN Ia at z = 0.050.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with CGCG018-095; an r=15.75 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. Its located 0.28" S, 46.58" E (46.7 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host distance of 207.0 Mpc(z=0.047) implies a m - M = 36.58.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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