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Possible Bright Supernova discovered by PSST

ATel #7295; K. W. Smith, D. Wright, S. J. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast), M. Huber, K. C. Chambers, H. Flewelling, M. Willman, N. Primak, A. Schultz, B. Gibson, E. Magnier, C. Waters, J. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat (IfA, Hawaii), R. J. Foley (Illinois), S. W. Jha (Rutgers), A. Rest (STScI), D. Scolnic (Chicago/KICP)
on 26 Mar 2015; 18:26 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Ken Smith (k.w.smith@qub.ac.uk)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae

A bright transient, which is a possible supernova, has been discovered as part of the Pan-STARRS Survey for Transients (PSST). Information on all objects discovered by the Pan-STARRS Survey for Transients is available at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/ps1threepi/ (see Huber et al. ATel #7153). We will send all objects brighter than 18 mag as ATel alerts, while all other objects can be found on these webpages.

 
Name   | RA (J2000)  | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc Mag | filter | Notes 
PS15uj | 10 19 21.35 | -22 08 37.6 |  20150325  |  17.61   |   i    |  (1) 

(1) NED reports that the likely host (3.16 arcsec away) is CTS 1011 with spectroscopic z=0.01214. At that redshift, assuming this is the host, the object would have an absolute magnitude of ~ -16.0, which could mean that it is either very young, very old or intrinsically faint.