Discovery and Classification of Five New Supernovae by the Palomar Transient Factory

ATel #3095; I. Arcavi (WIS), A. Horesh (CIT), B. Sesar (CIT), M. Sullivan (Oxford), K. Maguire (Oxford), S. Ben-Ami (WIS), A. Sternberg (WIS), Y. Green (WIS), A. Gal-Yam (WIS), S. R. Kulkarni (CIT), R. Quimby (CIT), M. M. Kasliwal (CIT), E. O. Ofek (CIT), P. E. Nugent (LBNL), D. A. Howell (LCOGT/UCSB), J. Bloom (UCB), J. Cooke (Swinburne), S. B. Cenko (UCB) and N. Law (U Toronto) on behalf of the PTF Collaboration
on 31 Dec 2010; 15:34 UT
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We report the discovery and spectroscopic classification of five new supernovae from PTF (ATel #1964; http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ptf ). The supernovae were discovered by Oarical, an autonomous software framework of the PTF collaboration and by the users of Galaxy Zoo Supernovae, a citizen science project (http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org; Smith et al. 2010, arXiv 1011.2199), based on observations made with the Palomar 48-inch Oschin Schmidt telescope. Spectroscopy was undertaken with the Intermediate dispersion Spectrograph and Imaging System (ISIS) on the William Herschel 4.2-m telescope on November 30 UT (for PTF10aavz) and with the Double-Beam Spectrograph (DBSP; Oke \& Gunn 1982, PASP, 94, 586) on the Palomar 5-m Hale telescope on December 07 UT (for PTF10absf, PTF10abte, PTF10abui and PTF10abav). The superfit program (Howell et al. 2005, ApJ 634, 1190) was used to determine the supernova types. Details of the discoveries are as follows:

Name	RA	Dec	Disc Date (UT)	Disc Mag (r)	Type	z
PTF10absf	03:43:27.70	-12:48:39.6	2010 Dec 2	20.2	SN II	0.062
PTF10abte	01:25:23.69	+10:10:30.0	2010 Dec 1	20.1	SN II	0.053
PTF10abui	06:12:18.46	-22:46:15.6	2010 Nov 30	19.1	SN IIn	0.052
PTF10aavz	11:20:13.36	+03:44:45.2	2010 Nov 14	19.5	SN Ic-BL	0.062
PTF10abav	08:31:17.45	+10:20:27.2	2010 Nov 14	19.8	SN II	0.085