A New Supernova Discovery/Classification

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Optical, Request For Observations, Novae, Supernovae

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The Type Ia supernova science working group of the Palomar Transient Factory (ATEL#1964) reports the discovery of a nearby supernova, PTF10fps. The supernova is at RA = 13:29:25.11 Dec = +11:47:46.4 (J2000), on the outskirts of NGC 5177 at a redshift of 0.0216. The supernova was discovered on Apr. 16.2 UT when it was at magnitude 18.0 in R-band (calibrated wrt the USNO catalog). There was nothing at this location on Apr 11.2 UT to a limiting magnitude of 20.9.

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