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Gaia16asc, Gaia16ase, Gaia16asj and Gaia16ask candidate supernovae near galaxies confirmed by Mercator/Maia imaging

ATel #9209; S. Blanco-Cuaresma, T. Semaan, M. Roelens, L. Palaversa, N. Mowlavi, L. Eyer (Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
on 5 Jul 2016; 04:15 UT
Credential Certification: Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma (Sergi.Blanco@unige.ch)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient

We report confirmation of Gaia Science Alerts transients Gaia16asc, Gaia16ase, Gaia16asj and Gaia16ask. Images were obtained in G and R bands of the Maia instrument mounted to the Flemish 1.2m Mercator telescope at Roque de los Muchachos observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, on 2016 July 02 - 04.

These new sources are supernovae candidates near galaxies and they are not visible in archival 2MASS and DSS images: Gaia16asc, Gaia16ase, Gaia16asj and Gaia16ask. MAIA G band 400x400 pixel cut-out image is provided (N is up, E is left and scale is 0.276"/pix, dead and saturated pixels are masked and represented with a white colour).

MJD Gaia16asc Gaia16ase Gaia16asj Gaia16ask
G R G R G R G R
57,571.9 ~18.8 ~17.9 ~19.5 - - ~17.1 ~17.5 ~17.3
57,572.9 ~18.9 ~17.9 ~19.6 - ~17.6 ~17.0 ~17.6 ~17.4
57574.0 ~18.9 ~17.9 ~19.7 - ~17.3 ~16.9 ~17.5 ~17.3


The photometric calibrations were obtained using the Cambridge Photometric Calibration Server (CPCS), designed and maintained by Sergey Koposov and Lukasz Wyrzykowski. We acknowledge ESA Gaia, DPAC and the Photometric Science Alerts Team (http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts).