ZTF23aaxnbwb

56.904966, -8.677668

Discovery Date: 2023-08-13 11:27:29 UTC
Discovery MJD: 60169.48
Disc g-Mag: 19.98±0.19
Latest Date: 2023-09-24 10:59:36 UTC
Latest MJD: 60211.46
Latest r-Mag: 19.87±0.11
Peak Mag 19.49±0.27 (g-band)
Peak Date 2023-08-31 12:11:12
Peak MJD 60187.51
Detection Count 17 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 03:47:37.192, -08:40:39.606
Galactic Coords 197.499343, -44.522291
Ecliptic Coords 52.356673, -27.895154

Transient Name Server

AT2023rkf

The transient was discovered on 13th August 2023 at 11:26:52 (MJD 60169.48) by ZTF as ZTF23aaxnbwb with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.98..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: AGN

The transient is synonymous with WISEAJ034737.18-084039.; an unknown-mag AGN found in the MILLIQUAS catalogue. Its located 0.3" (2.0 Kpc) from the AGN core. A host z=1.000 implies a m - M = 44.10.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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