Discovery and Classification of a Type IIP Supernova SN 2017fbq from Antarctic Transient Survey
ATel #10553; Syed Uddin, Lei Hu, Lifan Wang, Tianrui Sun (Purple Mountain Observatory), Xiaofeng Wang, Wenxiong Li, Jicheng Zhang, Charling Tao (Tsinghua University), Griffin Hosseinzadeh, D. Andrew Howell, Iair Arcavi, Curtis McCully (Las Cumbers Observatory/University of California Santa Barbara), Stefano Valenti (University of California Davis), Zhaohui Shang, Bin Ma, Yi Hu, Lingzhi Wang (National Astronomical Observatories of China), Xiangyan Yuan, Xiaoyan Li (Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne University of Technology), Ju-Jia Zhang (Yunnan Observatories), and Michael Ashley (University of New South Wales)
on 3 Jul 2017; 06:49 UT
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Credential Certification: Xiaofeng Wang (wang_xf@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient
The Antarctic Transient Survey (ATS) reports the detection of SN 2017fbq (=ATS-17A), a likely young Type II Plateau Supernova at RA = 19:33:45.61; Dec = -60:58:02.2 (J2000), located 1".0 east and 0".0 north of the center of the the galaxy 2MASX J19334551-6058022. The Sloan-g magnitude of the transient was 18.5 at UT Jun. 27.86 2017. ATS targets optical transients using a 0.5-m Schmidt telescope (AST3-2) located at Dome A, Antarctica.
We obtained an optical spectrum of SN 2017fbq/ATS-17A on UT 2017 Jun 30.46 using the FLOYDS instrument on the 2-m telescope located at Siding Spring Observatory and operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory. Spectral fitting with Superfit (Howell et al. 2005, ApJ 634, 1190) produces a match with the type-IIP supernova SN 2005cs at a redshift of 0.015.
