KAIT Discovery and Robotic Follow-up Observations of a Possible SN Candidate in UGC 11000 : PSN J17492705+3608360
ATel #7345; WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley)
on 4 Apr 2015; 19:04 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Weikang Zheng (zwk@umich.edu)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
Referred to by ATel #: 7347
We report the discovery, with the 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory, of a possible new supernova in the nearby galaxy UGC 11000 (z=0.004566). The new object, dubbed PSN J17492705+3608360 (by the IAU), is located at (J2000.0) coordinates RA = 17:49:27.05, Dec = +36:08:36.0. Following discovery in an unfiltered image obtained at 12:23 UT on 2015 Apr. 04, KAIT autonomously began a sequence of triggered follow-up observations in the U, B, V, R, I, and clear (roughly R) filters beginning only 5 minutes later. Using stars from the USNO-B1 catalog for reference, we measure R~15.9 mag at this time. The target was not detected at this location 8 days earlier on 2015 Mar. 27 with image limiting mag of R~18.5. An finding chart was posted at the following website: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~zwk/findingchart/PSN_J17492705+36083599.jpg
