The First Optical Transient Discoveries from MLS
ATel #2318; A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, R. Williams (Caltech); M. Catelan (PUC); E. C. Beshore, S. M. Larson, A. Boattini, A. Gibbs, A. Grauer, R. Hill, R. Kowalski (LPL/UA); E. Christensen (Gemini Observatory)
on 30 Nov 2009; 03:30 UT
Credential Certification: Andrew J. Drake (ajd@cacr.caltech.edu)
Subjects: Optical, Request for Observations, Quasar, Supernovae, Transient
We report on the discovery of optical transients by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS)
in data from the Catalina Sky Survey's 1.5m Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) telescope. The transients
were discovered between 2009-11-11 and 2009-11-24 UT and have the following parameters:
The discoveries were made by comparison to sources measured in MLS coadds reaching magnitude ~23
as well as SDSS, PQ, CSS, CFHT, NOAO and DSS data. MLS091117:035914+133442 appears to be associated with radio source NVSS J035914+133444. All transients were made within minutes of observation and sent as VOEvent alerts. Follow-up is requested.
Additional transients and variable sources from the MLS 1.5m are regularly posted at http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/MLS/Allns.html
Automated event alerts can be obtained from SkyAlert.org.
All CRTS discoveries are made openly available.
Additional info on CRTS can be found here: http://crts.caltech.edu