PTF discovery of PTF10hny, a type II supernova
ATel #2678; A. Gal-Yam, S. Ben-Ami, I. Arcavi (Weizmann Institute of Science), R. M. Quimby, M. M. Kasliwal, E. O. Ofek, S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech), P. Nugent (LBNL), J. Bloom (UCB), 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 Jun 2010; 07:12 UT
Credential Certification: Avishay Gal-Yam (avishay.gal-yam@weizmann.ac.il)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
The PTF (ATEL #1964; http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ptf/ ) reports the discovery of a new supernova, PTF10hny. The supernova was discovered by Oarical, an autonomous software framework of the PTF collaboration, on June 10 UT at RA(J2000) = 15:04:25.29 and DEC(J2000) = +49:24:03.0 at a magnitude of 19.8 in R-band (calibrated with respect to the USNO catalog) in the galaxy MCG +08-27-062 (z=0.027). The supernova was not detected down to mag 21 in previous PTF images taken during 2010 (3-sigma). A spectrum was obtained using the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS; Oke et al. 1995, PASP, 107, 375) on the Keck I 10-m telescope on June 8 UT, revealing the supernova to be of type II. The superfit program (Howell et al. 2005, ApJ 634, 1190) finds a good match to the type II-P SN 1999em at 20 days post-peak.
