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ATel 3938: MASTER FOUR OT's detection

22 Feb 2012 at 4:24pm
MASTER095634.40+180751.2- ? MASTER-Kislovodsk auto-detection system discovered OT source at (RA, Dec) = 09h 56m 34.40s +18d 07m 51.2s on 2012-02-20.89145 UT. ... Read more...

ATel 3935: MASTER Recently 5 Flashes Detection

18 Feb 2012 at 3:08pm
MASTER191229.11+595229.0 - ? MASTER-Kislovodsk auto-detection system discovered OT source at (RA, Dec) = 19h 12m 29.11s +59d 52m 29.0s on 2012-02-12.12238 UT. ... Read more...

ATel 3932: New disk nova candidate in M 31

16 Feb 2012 at 6:50pm
We report the discovery of a possible nova in the south-western disk of M 31 on a 5x120s dithered stacked CCD image obtained with the Open University PIRATE Planewave CDK17 0.43m Dall-Kirkham f/6.7 telescope at the Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca (Costitx, Spain), using an SBIG STX 16803 CCD... Read more...

ATel 3931: Radio observations of PS1-12fo (=CSS120121)

16 Feb 2012 at 5:34pm
PS1-12fo is an ultra-luminous supernova of Type Ic at z=0.175 (ATel #3918), belonging to the SN class identified by Quimby et al. (2011, Nature, 474, 487). ... Read more...

ATel 3929: MASTER PSN in SDSS galaxy J085834.51+213821.7 detection

16 Feb 2012 at 9:03am
MASTER-Kislovodsk auto-detection system discovered OT source at (RA, Dec) = 08h 58m 34.56s +21d 38m 21.4s on 2012-02-13.88 UT. The OT unfiltered magnitude is 18.9m (limit 20.0 m). ... Read more...

ATel 3928: Catalina Surveys photometry of 1RXS J075330.1+044606

15 Feb 2012 at 8:53pm
Following the discovery of the possible VY Scl-type variable 1RXS J075330.1+044606 by Sokolovsky et al. (2012, ATel#3927), we investigated the public photometry for the source from the Catalina Surveys Data Release (CSDR1, http://www.catalinadata.org/). ... Read more...

ATel 3925: Swift observation of PS1-12fo (=CSS120121)

14 Feb 2012 at 11:52pm
PS1-12fo is a spectroscopically confirmed, very luminous supernova with similarities to SN2010gx, lying at redshift z=0.175 (Valenti et al. ATels #2668, #3351; Smartt et al. ... Read more...

ATel 3923: Swift ToO observation of PSN J05001372-0320512

14 Feb 2012 at 4:48am
A Swift ToO observation was requested and performed on 12 Feb. 2012 upon the optical transient PSN J05001372-0320512, a likely young SN Ib/c (ATel #3922). ... Read more...

ATel 3922: PSN J05001372-0320512 is likely a SN Ib/c simialr to SN 2008D

13 Feb 2012 at 5:48pm
The optical transient, PSN J05001372-0320512, was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search program (ref., http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/). ... Read more...

ATel 3920: Photometric evolution of the M31 nova PTF12ahb

13 Feb 2012 at 5:24am
Additional photometric observations of the unusual nova PTF12ahb (ATEL #3905 and #3912) were obtained with the 0.65-m telescope at Ondrejov: Date UT Mag Band 2012 02 05.744 19.4 +/- 0.2 R 2012 02 08.720 19.2 +/- 0.1 R 2012 02 08.732 18.9 +/- 0.25 I 2012 02 10.725 19.0 +/- 0.1... Read more...



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