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Gaia16aso, Gaia16asq, Gaia16asu and Gaia16atb candidate supernovae near galaxies confirmed by Mercator/Maia imaging

ATel #9213; S. Blanco-Cuaresma, M. Roelens, T. Semaan, L. Palaversa, N. Mowlavi, L. Eyer (Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
on 6 Jul 2016; 01:31 UT
Credential Certification: Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma (Sergi.Blanco@unige.ch)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient

We report confirmation of Gaia Science Alerts transients Gaia16aso, Gaia16asq, Gaia16asu and Gaia16atb. 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 04 - 05.

These new sources are supernovae candidates near galaxies and they are not visible in archival 2MASS and DSS images: Gaia16aso, Gaia16asq, Gaia16asu and Gaia16atb. MAIA G band 400x400 pixel cut-out image is provided (N is up, E is left and scale is 0.276"/pix).

MJD Gaia16aso Gaia16asq Gaia16asu Gaia16atb
G R G R G R G R
57573.9 ~18.2 ~18.0 ~18.7 ~18.0 ~16.7 ~16.5 ~18.5 ~18.6
57574.9 ~17.9 ~17.6 ~18.7 ~17.9 ~16.7 ~16.3 - ~18.4


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).