La Silla-QUEST Detections and Nearby Supernova Factory II Spectroscopic Confirmations: Type Ic Supernova (LSQ11jw) and Type Ia Supernova (LSQ11pn)

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We report the discovery of the Type Ic supernova LSQ11jw (J2000.0 coordinates RA 02:04:47.40 DEC 00:50:06.0) on Dec. 18.6 UTC at magnitude R=20.9 (calibrated to USNO-B1.0), as part of the La Silla-QUEST (LSQ) transient survey conducted with Yale University's 160-megapixel QUEST camera on the European Southern Observatory 1.0-m Schmidt Telescope at La Silla, Chile (Rabinowitz et al. 2011, ApJ, 732, 512).

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