ZTF23aakjbef

152.374325, 5.961970

Discovery Date: 2023-05-15 04:49:52 UTC
Discovery MJD: 60079.20
Disc r-Mag: 20.14±0.25
Latest Date: 2023-05-19 04:26:21 UTC
Latest MJD: 60083.18
Latest r-Mag: 19.91±0.20
Peak Mag 19.82±0.31 (g-band)
Peak Date 2023-05-17 05:12:08
Peak MJD 60081.22
Detection Count 3 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 10:09:29.838, 05:57:43.092
Galactic Coords 234.288034, 46.104282
Ecliptic Coords 152.208167, -5.057275

Transient Name Server

AT2023ixs

The transient was discovered on 15th May 2023 at 04:49:52 (MJD 60079.20) by ZTF as ZTF23aakjbef with a discovery magnitude of r = 20.14..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSSJ100929.83%2B055742.9; an r=20.62 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. Its located 0.06" N, 0.03" W from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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