PTF discovery of a type II SN
ATel #2621; A. Gal-Yam, I. Arcavi, S. Ben-Ami, D. Xu (Weizmann Institute of Science), P. Nugent (LBNL), J. S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), R. M. Quimby, E. O. Ofek, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech), N. M. Law (U. Toronto), R. G. Dekany, G. Rahmer, David Hale, R. Smith, J. Zolkower, V. Velur, R. Walters, J. Henning, K. Bui, D. McKenna (Caltech), and J. Jacobsen (LBNL) on behalf of the Core-Collapse working group of the Palomar Transient Factory (ATEL#1964)
on 16 May 2010; 11:20 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) reports the discovery of a new supernova, PTF10fqx. The supernova was discovered
and classified by Oarical, an autonomous software framework of the PTF collaboration, on March 27 UT
at RA(J2000) = 16:46:01.27 and DEC(J2000) = +63:28:59.5 at a magnitude of 19.0 in R-band (calibrated with respect to the USNO catalog) in the galaxy UGC 10551. The supernova was not detected down to mag 21.0 in previous PTF images taken during 2009 (3-sigma). A spectrum was obtained using the Double-Beam Spectrograph (DBSP; Oke & Gunn 1982, PASP, 94, 586) on the Palomar 5-m Hale telescope on May 7 UT, revealing the supernova to be of type II, at z=0.017. The best match found using the superfit program (Howell et al. 2005, ApJ 634, 1190) is with SN 1999em at 75 days post-peak.
