OGLE-IV Transient Search report 26 January 2014
ATel #5817; L. Wyrzykowski, A. Udalski, S. Kozlowski, R. Poleski, M. K.Szymanski, P. Pietrukowicz (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland), on behalf of the OGLE team
on 26 Jan 2014; 20:27 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Lukasz Wyrzykowski (wyrzykow@ast.cam.ac.uk)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient
The OGLE-IV Transient Search (Wyrzykowski et al. ATEL #4495, Kozlowski et al. 2013)
reports the discovery of 6 new on-going candidates for transients.
Most of them appeared near or on top of apparent galaxies
and their light curves resemble those of supernovae near or after their peak brightness.
Name RA(J2000.0) Dec(J2000.0) discovery_JD discovery_Imag Notes
OGLE-2014-SN-001 7:02:35.67 -72:48:16.5 2456659.75454 19.073 plausible faint host,or CV (ATEL #5718)
OGLE-2014-SN-002 4:04:31.74 -63:50:15.8 2456660.72357 19.526 Ia z=0.1 (ATEL #5748)
OGLE-2014-SN-003 2:09:59.06 -73:02:11.8 2456664.62577 19.104
OGLE-2014-SN-004 4:38:36.94 -65:31:29.8 2456668.76158 18.794
OGLE-2014-SN-005 7:12:06.78 -70:07:13.6 2456682.73417 21.600 very faint,now in decline
OGLE-2014-SN-006 7:45:41.73 -70:18:58.7 2456682.74720 19.872
Photometric and spectroscopic follow-up is strongly encouraged.
Finding charts and light curves are available here.
