ZTF23aalcvlh

175.603249, 20.118711

Discovery Date: 2023-05-22 05:08:33 UTC
Discovery MJD: 60086.21
Disc g-Mag: 17.03±0.04
Latest Date: 2023-06-02 05:50:24 UTC
Latest MJD: 60097.24
Latest r-Mag: 17.00±0.03
Peak Mag 16.99±0.04 (r-band)
Peak Date 2023-05-26 04:21:45
Peak MJD 60090.18
Detection Count 5 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 11:42:24.780, 20:07:7.361
Galactic Coords 233.182195, 72.728738
Ecliptic Coords 167.773752, 16.675391

Transient Name Server

AT2023jbk

The transient was discovered on 21st May 2023 at 06:44:34 (MJD 60085.28) by ATLAS as ATLAS23lag with a discovery magnitude of orange = 17.56..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with CGCG097-068; a J=12.00 mag galaxy found in the NED_D/SDSS/2MASS/LASR/PS1 catalogues. Its located 2.71" S, 4.15" E (1.7 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host distance of 80.1 Mpc(z=0.020) implies a m - M = 34.52.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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