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Possible Bright Supernovae discovered by PSST

ATel #7598; 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 6 Jun 2015; 13:25 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Ken Smith (k.w.smith@qub.ac.uk)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae

Two bright transients, which are possible supernovae, have 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 
PS15apr | 09 22 45.03 | +08 44 53.4 |  20150604  |  17.49   |   z    |  (1) 
PS15apv | 21 08 18.61 | +17 09 56.2 |  20150604  |  17.29   |   i    | 

(1) NED reports that the likely host (4.98 arcsec away) is 2MASX J09224472+0844519 with spectroscopic z=0.031784. At that redshift, the object would have an absolute magnitude of -18.24.