PTF weekly SN discovery report, August 27, 2011
ATel #3630; Avishay Gal-Yam, D. Xu, S. Ben-Ami, I. Arcavi, A. Sternberg (Weizmann), Peter Nugent (LBNL), Y. Cao, N. Konidaris, D. Levitan (Caltech), K. Maguire, Y.-C. Pan (Oxford), S. B. Cenko, J. Silverman, T. Kandrashoff, J. S. Bloom (UCB), E. Walker (Pisa) and P. Groot (Nijmegen), on behalf of the PTF
on 5 Sep 2011; 13:46 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, #3253; http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ptf/ ; Law et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 1395; Rau et al. 2009, PASP, 121, 1334) reports the discovery of 11 new supernovae. PTF discoveries are made by autonomous PTF software (Bloom et al. 2011, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1106.5491B ), as well as by the Galaxy Zoo Supernova Project (Smith et al. 2011, MNRAS, 412, 1309; http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org ).
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Discovery | Mag | Redshift | Type | Spec. | Phase | Instrument | Notes
PTF11izq | 13 47 30.11 | +40 04 32.5 | Jul 26.22 | 19.8 | 0.062 | SN Ib | Aug 19 | | WHT+ISIS |
PTF11izs | 17 10 46.82 | +39 08 32.7 | Jul 26.35 | 20.0 | 0.075 | SN Ia | Aug 08 | 4 d | WHT+ISIS |
PTF11jzd | 17 35 10.81 | +34 30 26.2 | Aug 05.26 | 21.6 | 0.24 | SN Ia | Aug 07 | 0 d | WHT+ACAM |
PTF11kaa | 17 26 24.17 | +46 51 29.6 | Aug 03.36 | 19.5 | 0.04 | SN Ib | Aug 20 | | WHT+ISIS |
PTF11kgl | 22 51 28.93 | +17 14 25.1 | Aug 09.46 | 19.7 | 0.116 | SN Ia | Aug 19 | 0 d | TNG+DOLORES |
PTF11kjk | 21 40 28.80 | +23 20 36.9 | Aug 11.43 | 19.7 | 0.067 | SN II | Aug 31 | | WHT+ISIS |
PTF11kjl | 17 24 42.68 | +73 20 59.3 | Aug 11.31 | 19.7 | 0.11 | SN Ia | Aug 19 | 5 d | TNG+DOLORES |
PTF11kjn | 22 45 02.86 | +34 00 15.4 | Aug 16.30 | 18.7 | 0.023343 | SN Ia | Aug 17 | | UH88+SNIFS | SN2011ff (PSN J22450228+3400150)
PTF11kjr | 01 41 43.04 | +13 40 34.9 | Aug 16.39 | 17.1 | 0.0452 | SN Ia | Aug 25 | | Lick 3-m+KAST |
PTF11kkd | 20 42 57.35 | -10 16 36.1 | Aug 18.37 | 18.9 | 0.08 | SN Ia | Aug 20 | 0 d | UH88+SNIFS |
PTF11klg | 22 07 09.92 | +06 29 08.7 | Aug 19.39 | 19.6 | 0.026522 | SN Ic | Aug 23 | | UH88+SNIFS |
PTF is a collaboration of Caltech, LCOGT, the Weizmann Institute, LBNL, Oxford, Columbia, IPAC, and Berkeley.