OGLE-IV Transient Search report 14 January 2015
ATel #6922; L. Wyrzykowski, Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, A. Udalski, S. Kozlowski, R. Poleski, M. Szymanski (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland), on behalf of the OGLE team
on 14 Jan 2015; 21:27 UT
Credential Certification: Lukasz Wyrzykowski (wyrzykow@ast.cam.ac.uk)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient
The OGLE-IV Transient Detection System
(Wyrzykowski et al. 2014, AcA,64,197; Kozlowski et al. 2013)
reports the discovery of
16
new on-going 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-2015-SN-001 4:29:18.08 -61:12:08.5 2457023.77214 19.328
OGLE-2015-SN-002 3:41:34.59 -73:22:50.7 2457022.60954 19.580
OGLE-2015-SN-003 3:24:00.70 -68:04:52.1 2457023.55531 19.075
OGLE-2015-SN-004 0:52:06.94 -63:47:02.2 2457023.62937 19.167
OGLE-2015-SN-005 2:01:31.16 -66:27:16.5 2457024.61889 19.312
OGLE-2015-SN-006 2:02:17.70 -67:50:58.1 2457024.61677 19.420
OGLE-2015-SN-007 4:28:01.29 -68:17:12.9 2457024.74014 19.186
OGLE-2015-SN-008 0:30:26.20 -73:49:18.6 2457025.53972 20.389
OGLE-2015-SN-009 2:08:34.95 -71:08:40.0 2457032.59418 19.707 IIP z=0.06 (ATEL #6909)
OGLE-2015-SN-010 2:57:08.40 -73:06:33.8 2457032.63768 19.068
OGLE-2015-SN-011 4:56:33.61 -62:39:32.1 2457032.75582 20.804
OGLE-2015-SN-012 6:07:05.21 -71:21:58.8 2457033.79540 20.462
OGLE-2015-SN-013 3:15:22.08 -74:18:56.5 2457034.58695 19.977
OGLE-2015-SN-014 2:38:28.09 -67:00:23.7 2457035.59906 20.361
OGLE-2015-SN-015 4:24:46.87 -62:34:45.3 2457035.74061 20.329
OGLE-2015-SN-016 3:49:04.11 -65:58:24.8 2457034.63875 20.774 uncertain or unusual
Photometric and spectroscopic follow-up is strongly encouraged.
Finding charts and light curves are available here.
