Bright transients discovered by PSST

ATel #7778; 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 9 Jul 2015; 13:21 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Stephen Smartt (s.smartt@qub.ac.uk)

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Two bright transients, have been discovered as part of the Pan-STARRS Survey for Transients (PSST). PS15bep is a probable supernova. PS15ber is either a supernovae in a faint host galaxies or possibly a high amplitude galactic variable. 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 
PS15bep    | 20 28 10.54 | +79 07 33.8 |  20150706  |  17.54   |   i    |  (1) 
PS15ber    | 20 40 28.82 | +69 59 32.5 |  20150706  |  16.84   |   i    |  (2) 
 

(1) The transient is offset from the centre of an extended source, and probable host galaxy, in the PS1 i-band reference stack. This host is also catalogued in GALEX as a faint source. (2) There is no host source detected in the PS1 i-band reference stack to i~23.