ZTF23aakjqau

188.490695, 53.239280

Discovery Date: 2023-05-17 07:34:51 UTC
Discovery MJD: 60081.32
Disc g-Mag: 20.63±0.27
Latest Date: 2023-05-29 07:13:03 UTC
Latest MJD: 60093.30
Latest g-Mag: 20.08±0.17
Peak Mag 20.08±0.17 (g-band)
Peak Date 2023-05-29 07:13:03
Peak MJD 60093.30
Detection Count 9 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 12:33:57.767, 53:14:21.409
Galactic Coords 128.835287, 63.688210
Ecliptic Coords 158.128742, 50.370278

Transient Name Server

AT2023ixq

The transient was discovered on 17th May 2023 at 07:34:51 (MJD 60081.32) by ZTF as ZTF23aakjqau with a discovery magnitude of g = 20.63..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J123357.96+531420.6; an r=18.60 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/PS1 catalogues. Its located 0.75" N, 1.86" W (4.7 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.146 implies a m - M = 39.20.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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