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PTF weekly SN discovery report, August 6, 2011

ATel #3531; A. Gal-Yam, D. Xu (Weizmann), P. Nugent, E. Hsiao (LBL), D. Levitan (Caltech), K. Maguire, Y.-C. Pan, M. Sullivan (Oxford), and P. Groot (Nijmegen) report for the PTF
on 6 Aug 2011; 21:26 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Avishay Gal-Yam (avishay.gal-yam@weizmann.ac.il)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae

The PTF (ATEL #1964, #3253; http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ptf/ ; Law et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 1395; Rau et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 1334) reports the discovery of 10 new supernovae. PTF discoveries are made by autonomous PTF software (Bloom et al. 2011, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1106.5491B ), as well as by the Galaxy Zoo Supernova Project (Smith et al. 2011, MNRAS, 412, 1309; http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org ).

  
  
Name     | RA (J2000)  | Dec (J2000) | Discovery | Mag  | Redshift | Type     | Spec.  | Phase | Instrument     | Notes   
PTF11hyg | 23 27 57.34 | +08 46 38.0 | Jul 11.35 | 18.3 | 0.03     | SN Ic    | Jul 26 |       |      P200+DBSP | SN2011ee 
PTF11ihr | 01 44 08.07 | +12 48 11.5 | Jul 20.39 | 18.1 | 0.06     | SN Ia    | Jul 26 |       |      P200+DBSP | CSS110701:014408+124812  
PTF11ijp | 21 47 11.14 | -01 13 03.3 | Jul 21.36 | 18.8 | 0.131    | SN Ia    | Jul 26 |   5 d |      P200+DBSP |   
PTF11ivb | 00 37 30.71 | +02 54 41.7 | Jul 24.34 | 18.8 | 0.07     | SN Ia    | Jul 28 |  -5 d |  Lick 3-m+KAST |   
PTF11iwl | 17 35 16.12 | +49 57 12.2 | Jul 24.36 | 20.1 | 0.054    | SN II    | Jul 30 |       |       WHT+ISIS |   
PTF11ixk | 13 21 45.03 | +31 14 04.6 | Jul 24.17 | 17.9 | 0.021    | SN Ic    | Jul 26 |       |      P200+DBSP |   
PTF11jfm | 18 16 04.39 | +24 05 11.3 | Jul 28.33 | 19.0 | 0.06     | SN Ia    | Aug 03 |       |      P200+DBSP |   
PTF11jgp | 21 16 48.59 | +10 37 09.0 | Jul 23.46 | 19.2 | 0.07     | SN II    | Jul 29 |       |       WHT+ISIS |   
PTF11jle | 21 11 02.06 | -01 07 08.3 | Jul 23.33 | 19.6 | 0.22     | SN Ia    | Aug 03 |   0 d |      P200+DBSP |   
PTF11jlf | 17 15 49.27 | +45 30 46.9 | Jul 28.23 | 20.5 | 0.2      | SN Ia    | Aug 03 |   0 d |      P200+DBSP |   
 
PTF is a collaboration of Caltech, LCOGT, the Weizmann Institute, LBNL, Oxford, Columbia, IPAC, and Berkeley.