iPTF Discovery of an Apparent Nova in M31
ATel #5785; S. Tang (Caltech/UCSB), Y. Cao (Caltech), and M. M. Kasliwal (Carnegie/Princeton) on behalf of the iPTF collaboration
on 22 Jan 2014; 04:11 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Novae
Credential Certification: Sumin Tang (tangsm@gmail.com)
Subjects: Optical, Nova, Transient
Referred to by ATel #: 5852
The intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (ATel #4807) report the discovery of an apparent nova in M31, iPTF14ht, at RA=00:42:23.58, Dec=+41:29:12.4. This optical transient was first detected on UT Jan 18.1, 2014 at magnitude R=19.6, brightened to R=19.0 on UT Jan 20.1, and dropped to R=19.2 on UT Jan 21.1. Nothing was there at this location on UT Jan 13, and previous iPTF images (typically nightly observations), with typical limiting magnitudes R~21 mag. It is in the disk of M31 in the line of sight, and may have large extinction by M31 dust.
