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Recent Transient Discoveries from CRTS

ATel #3262; A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, R. Williams, C. Donalek (Caltech); E. Christensen (Gemini Obs); J. Prieto (Carnegie Obs); M. Catelan (PUC); E. C. Beshore, S. M. Larson (LPL/UA); R. H. McNaught (ANU).
on 7 Apr 2011; 04:56 UT
Credential Certification: Andrew J. Drake (ajd@cacr.caltech.edu)

Subjects: Optical, AGN, Cataclysmic Variable, Supernovae, Transient, Variables

Referred to by ATel #: 3324

Further to ATel#3215, we report the CRTS discovery of 212 new optical transients and highly variable sources between 2011-03-12 and 2011-04-06 UT. The supernova candidates are as follows:

IDDisc. Date RA Dec Disc. Mag
CSS110406:135058+261642 2011-04-06 13:50:57.79 26:16:42.2 18.6
MLS110406:122742-034057 2011-04-06 12:27:41.82 -03:40:56.7 20.7
MLS110405:113211-020148 2011-04-05 11:32:10.73 -02:01:48.0 21.0 ☆
MLS110404:110052+101203 2011-04-04 11:00:52.24 10:12:02.9 19.4
CSS110404:090902+163354 2011-04-04 09:09:02.19 16:33:53.6 19.5
CSS110402:131115+543404 2011-04-02 13:11:15.02 54:34:04.3 18.2
SSS110402:044213-484413 2011-04-02 04:42:12.57 -48:44:12.6 17.1 ☆
CSS110330:123801+463910 2011-03-30 12:38:00.96 46:39:10.4 18.5
CSS110330:153559+211843 2011-03-30 15:35:58.75 21:18:42.8 19.2
MLS110330:124640-085116 2011-03-30 12:46:40.02 -08:51:16.2 20.4
MLS110330:122932-073039 2011-03-30 12:29:31.80 -07:30:39.1 19.8
MLS110330:125334-053143 2011-03-30 12:53:33.81 -05:31:43.5 20.2
MLS110330:130254-040236 2011-03-30 13:02:53.57 -04:02:36.0 18.8
MLS110329:090700+152330 2011-03-29 09:06:59.82 15:23:29.5 19.3
MLS110329:114842+032917 2011-03-29 11:48:42.48 03:29:17.1 20.5
MLS110329:115737+021302 2011-03-29 11:57:36.92 02:13:01.8 20.3
CSS110328:150718+265338 2011-03-28 15:07:18.07 26:53:37.6 19.3
CSS110328:125255+074652 2011-03-28 12:52:55.22 07:46:51.7 19.1
MLS110328:115422+001547 2011-03-28 11:54:22.08 00:15:46.7 20.8
CSS110327:143650+230150 2011-03-27 14:36:49.84 23:01:50.4 18.7
CSS110327:094401+251523 2011-03-27 09:44:01.41 25:15:23.4 18.7
CSS110325:110751+185939 2011-03-25 11:07:50.56 18:59:39.1 18.2 ☆
CSS110325:111951-002144 2011-03-25 11:19:50.98 -00:21:44.2 18.7 ☆
MLS110314:112615+105157 2011-03-14 11:26:15.13 10:51:57.3 20.4
CSS110312:093827+525806 2011-03-12 09:38:26.52 52:58:06.4 19.3
MLS110312:110709+154832 2011-03-12 11:07:09.11 15:48:32.1 19.2

Notes: 
☆ Events announced earlier on CBAT TOCP. 
Finding charts for these events can be found at http://voeventnet.caltech.edu/feeds/ATEL/CRTS   
Four additional SN candidates were discovered in SNHunt data by S. Howerton and one by Drake.  
Candidates SNhunt46 and SNhunt47 were spectroscopically confirmed as type Ia by Marion et al.  
(2011). SNHunt supernova and LBV candidates can be found at http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/catalina/current.html   

The remaining recent transients can be found at http://crts.caltech.edu/

All CRTS discoveries are found through the real-time processing of Catalina Sky Survey data and are immediately made available from links found at http://crts.caltech.edu/ and http://Skyalert.org. Follow-up is welcomed.