iPTF SN Discovery Report 20130723
ATel #5223; I. Arcavi, D. Tal, S. Ben-Ami, A. Gal-Yam (WIS), G. Currier, C. Dickey, M. Durbin, A. Hedlund (Pomona), Y. Cao (Caltech), A. Goobar (OKC) and M. Kasliwal (Carnegie) on behalf of the iPTF collaboration
on 23 Jul 2013; 14:48 UT
Credential Certification: Iair Arcavi (iair.arcavi@weizmann.ac.il)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
The iPTF (ATel #4807) reports the discovery and classification of three new SNe:
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Discovery | Mag | Redshift | Type
iPTF13bxj | 14 20 59.41 | +15 09 42.1 | Jul 2.68 | 19.4 | 0.06 | SN II
iPTF13byy | 16 35 41.07 | +37 25 12.8 | Jul 13.71 | 20.9 | 0.23 | SN Ia -5d
iPTF13byz | 16 12 20.50 | +16 29 16.3 | Jul 12.79 | 20.2 | 0.215 | SN Ia +9d
The classification spectra were obtained on July 16 (UT) with the Double Spectrograph (DBSP; Oke & Gunn, 1982, PASP, 94, 586) on the Palomar 200" Telescope.
The spectra can be viewed and downloaded from
WISeREP (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).
