5 more SN candidates discovered with DECam
ATel #5956; Francisco Forster, Juan Carlos Maureira (Center for Mathematical Modelling, CMM), Santiago Gonzalez-Gaitan, Lluis Galbany (Departamento de Astronomia, DAS), Jaime San Martin, Guillermo Cabrera, Eduardo Vera, Jorge Littin, Salvador Flores (CMM), Mario Hamuy, Thomas de Jaeger (DAS), Giuliano Pignata (UNAB), Joseph Anderson (ESO), and Chris Smith (CTIO)
on 8 Mar 2014; 01:57 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Lluis Galbany (lluisgalbany@gmail.com)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
Referred to by ATel #: 6014, 7099, 7108, 7115, 7122, 7131, 7132, 7146, 7148, 7149, 7162, 7164, 7221, 7246, 7664
We report the discovery of 5 more supernova explosions as detailed in ATEL #5949.
Additional list of possible SNe:
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc Mag (g) | Discovery images
KORA | 10:10:03.145 | -1:34:49.034 | 22.6(0.3) | here
MARA | 10:17:33.681 | -2:29:10.085 | 23.2(0.3) | here
DANA | 10:13:43.223 | -4:53:02.311 | 22.8(0.3) | here
PAMELA | 10:40:17.214 | -1:49:09.687 | 22.6(0.3) | here
LAURA | 11:01:32.764 | -0:56:11.887 | 21.2(0.3) | here
We estimate a limiting magnitude of 24 in the g band, and an astrometric precision <0.5" in the reported coordinates.