Probable Bright Supernova discovered by PSST
ATel #7471; D. Wright, K. W. Smith, 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 4 May 2015; 21:58 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Stephen Smartt (s.smartt@qub.ac.uk)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
Referred to by ATel #: 7477
A bright transient, which is a probable 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
PS15ahs | 17 59 29.77 | +43 23 24.2 | 20150502 | 17.82 | i | (1)
(1) NED reports that the likely host (6.71 arcsec away) is MCG +07-37-011. SDSS DR12
reports a photometric redshift of 0.031 +/- 0.007 for this galaxy.
PSST