An Unusual Optical Transient from Palomar-Quest: Possible Peculiar Supernova?

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Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006atel..827....1m&link_type=abstract

The Astronomer's Telegram, #827

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Infra-Red, Optical, Ultra-Violet, Novae, Supernovae, Transients

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An optical transient (OT) was detected in the Palomar-Quest scans taken of 20 May 2006 UT, in comparison with a combination of reference images taken in May and June 2002, by the SNfactory processing pipeline. The transient had a magnitude of R ~ 18.9 mag, and is located at RA = 14:39:33.21 and Dec = +05:46:36.6 (J2000), approximately 2 arcsec W and 0.5 arcsec S off a nucleus of an anonymous galaxy.

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