PTF discovery of PTF10hif, a type IIn supernova
ATel #2649; A. Gal-Yam, I. Arcavi, S. Ben Ami, A. Sternberg, D. Xu (Weizmann Institute of Science), P. Nugent (LBNL), J. S. Bloom, D. Poznanski (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 28 May 2010; 09:23 UT
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Credential Certification: Avishay Gal-Yam (avishay.gal-yam@weizmann.ac.il)
The PTF (ATEL #1964; http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ptf/ ) reports the discovery of a new supernova, PTF10hif. The supernova was discovered and classified by Oarical, an autonomous software framework of the PTF collaboration, on May 16 UT at RA(J2000) = 17:09:47.15 and DEC(J2000) = +27:15:40.5 at a magnitude of 19.6 in R-band (calibrated with respect to the USNO catalog) in an anonymous host galaxy. 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 21 UT, revealing the supernova to be of type IIn, at z=0.141.
