PTF weekly SN discovery report, October 21, 2011
ATel #3697; Avishay Gal-Yam, Sagi Ben-Ami (Weizmann), Peter Nugent (LBL), M. Kasliwal (OCIW/Princeton) Y. Cao and Branimir Sesar (Caltech) report for the PTF
on 21 Oct 2011; 16:22 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 7 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
PTF11moy | 17 06 18.06 | +38 32 19.9 | Sep 20.20 | 18.5 | 0.06 | SN Ia | Sep 29 | | Keck2+DEIMOS |
PTF11muc | 02 01 51.87 | -05 13 55.9 | Sep 24.48 | 20.3 | 0.102 | SN Ia | Sep 29 | | Keck2+DEIMOS |
PTF11mvg | 21 56 24.78 | +11 16 19.7 | Sep 26.38 | 20.5 | 0.12 | SN Ia | Sep 29 | | Keck2+DEIMOS |
PTF11nga | 21 30 05.72 | +03 30 54.4 | Sep 25.30 | 19.6 | 0.09 | SN Ia | Oct 02 | 1 d | UH88+SNIFS | CSS110930:213006+033055
PTF11nvm | 00 49 11.79 | +38 47 58.7 | Sep 30.34 | 21.9 | 0.156 | SN Ia | Oct 17 | | APO+DIS |
PTF11ogy | 22 48 17.73 | +18 09 22.7 | Oct 03.33 | 21.0 | 0.1 | SN Ia | Oct 16 | | APO+DIS |
PTF11okh | 23 06 02.81 | +34 06 36.1 | Oct 08.35 | 18.4 | 0.019 | SN Ia | Oct 09 | -6 d | UH88+SNIFS | SN 2011gu
PTF is a collaboration of Caltech, LCOGT, the Weizmann Institute, LBNL, Oxford, Columbia, IPAC, and Berkeley.
