ZTF23aaksoku

230.454665, 2.350308

Discovery Date: 2023-05-19 07:56:26 UTC
Discovery MJD: 60083.33
Disc g-Mag: 20.55±0.21
Latest Date: 2023-05-29 10:07:08 UTC
Latest MJD: 60093.42
Latest g-Mag: 19.38±0.14
Peak Mag 19.35±0.17 (r-band)
Peak Date 2023-05-27 07:33:37
Peak MJD 60091.32
Detection Count 11 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 15:21:49.120, 02:21:1.110
Galactic Coords 4.903980, 46.325972
Ecliptic Coords 227.349234, 20.126954

Transient Name Server

AT2023jcm

The transient was discovered on 19th May 2023 at 07:56:26 (MJD 60083.33) by ZTF as ZTF23aaksoku with a discovery magnitude of g = 20.55..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ15214932%2B0221015; a J=14.92 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. Its located 0.45" S, 2.98" W (6.4 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host distance of 534.0 Mpc(z=0.092) implies a m - M = 38.64.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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