PTF weekly SN discovery report, October 1, 2011
ATel #3668; Avishay Gal-Yam, Sagi Ben-Ami, Dong Xu (Weizmann), Peter Nugent (LBL), Branimir Sesar (Caltech), Y.-C. Pan (Oxford) and J. Silverman, S. B. Cenko and A. Filippenko report for the PTF
on 1 Oct 2011; 18:27 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
PTF11kiu | 22 18 55.10 | +26 45 34.3 | Aug 11.48 | 18.9 | 0.054 | SN Ia | Sep 21 | 30 d | P200+DBSP |
PTF11lpv | 08 30 18.93 | +72 50 11.1 | Sep 08.45 | 19.7 | 0.154 | SN Ia | Sep 21 | 16 d | P200+DBSP |
PTF11lxj | 22 16 32.25 | +00 28 23.7 | Sep 03.21 | 20.1 | 0.14 | SN Ia | Sep 24 | | WHT+ISIS |
PTF11mhh | 08 05 49.42 | +45 56 33.4 | Sep 16.52 | 17.4 | 0.039 | SN II | Sep 24 | | WHT+ISIS |
PTF11mke | 23 41 24.12 | +25 24 53.9 | Jul 23.48 | 19.0 | 0.035 | SN Ia | Sep 21 | | P200+DBSP |
PTF11mmk | 21 26 36.33 | +04 59 19.9 | Sep 19.15 | 19.3 | 0.049 | SN II | Sep 21 | | P200+DBSP |
PTF11mpa | 17 05 11.64 | +43 54 02.7 | Sep 20.20 | 16.6 | 0.032 | SN Ia | Sep 21 | | P200+DBSP |
PTF11mtf | 15 58 57.60 | +58 07 13.9 | Sep 21.12 | 20.4 | 0.18 | SN Ia | Sep 23 | | WHT+ISIS |
PTF11mto | 17 59 11.29 | +56 53 05.8 | Sep 22.32 | 18.7 | 0.0937 | SN Ia | Sep 26 | | Keck1+LRIS |
PTF11mty | 21 34 05.20 | +10 25 24.6 | Sep 23.24 | 19.8 | 0.077 | SN Ia | Sep 24 | -7 d | UH88+SNIFS |
PTF11muf | 01 47 31.62 | +27 21 28.1 | Sep 26.48 | 20.7 | 0.116 | SN Ia | Sep 27 | -5 d | UH88+SNIFS |
PTF is a collaboration of Caltech, LCOGT, the Weizmann Institute, LBNL, Oxford, Columbia, IPAC, and Berkeley.
