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OGLE-IV Transient Search report 24 February 2014

ATel #5916; L. Wyrzykowski, A. Udalski, S. Kozlowski, P. Mroz, Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland), on behalf of the OGLE team
on 24 Feb 2014; 16:02 UT
Credential Certification: Lukasz Wyrzykowski (wyrzykow@ast.cam.ac.uk)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient

Referred to by ATel #: 5919

The OGLE-IV Transient Search (Wyrzykowski et al. ATEL #4495, Kozlowski et al. 2013) reports the discovery of 7 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-015 6:25:23.86 -68:34:20.4 2456700.70514 18.977
OGLE-2014-SN-016 7:42:01.48 -72:29:41.7 2456706.74447 19.405 type Ia z=0.07 (ATel #5908)
OGLE-2014-SN-017 3:30:32.44 -63:43:16.4 2456709.61149 19.068
OGLE-2014-SN-018 6:18:20.35 -66:01:08.0 2456710.70753 18.373 type II z= 0.03 (ATel #5915)
OGLE-2014-SN-019 6:13:48.04 -67:55:15.0 2456710.70958 17.414 type Ia z=0.04 (ATel #5915)
OGLE-2014-SN-020 6:24:30.23 -73:58:10.5 2456710.63295 20.270
OGLE-2014-SN-021 5:48:23.49 -66:47:29.7 2456712.66078 17.915

Photometric and spectroscopic follow-up is strongly encouraged.

Finding charts and light curves are available here.