Photometric Typing Analyses of Three Young Supernovae with the Robotic Palomar 60-Inch Telescope

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2004-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411312v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

PASP in press; AASTeX; 13 pages, 4 figures; minor changes as per referee report

Scientific paper

10.1086/427985

We present photometric typing analyses of three young supernovae observed with the Robotic 60-inch Telescope at Palomar Observatory (P60). This represents the first time that such photo-typing has been attempted, in a blind fashion, on newly-discovered supernovae. For one of the target supernovae, SN2004cs, our photometry provided the first constraint on the SN type, which we predicted would be type Ia. To the contrary, however, our subsequent Keck spectroscopy shows it to be an unusual type II supernova. For each of the other two supernovae, SN2004dh (type II) and SN2004dk (type Ib), our photo-typing results are consistent with the known type of the event as determined from ground-based spectroscopy; however, the colors of SN2004dk are also consistent with a type Ic or type II classification. We discuss our approach to the challenges of photo-typing - contamination by host galaxy light and the unknown photometric quality of the data - in the case where it is desirable to complete the analysis with just one night of observations. The growing interest in the properties and behavior of very young supernovae, and the increased discovery rate for such events, mean that prompt photo-typing analyses can provide useful input to observational campaigns. Our results demonstrate the value and feasibility of such a project for P60, at the same time illustrating its chief inherent shortcoming: an inability to identify new and unusual events as such without later spectroscopic observations.

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