Supernova 2010ib

Abstract

A. Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science; D. A. Howell, University of California at Santa Barbara and Las Cumbres Observatory; S. B. Cenko and J. S. Bloom, University of California at Berkeley; M. M. Kasliwal and S. R. Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology (CIT); N. M. Law, University of Toronto; and E. O. Ofek and R. M. Quimby, CIT, report the independent discovery of SN 2010ib (cf. CBET 2464) by the ``Palomar Transient Factory’’ (PTF) group. The supernova (referred to by the PTF group as PTF10qob) was initially detected at R-band magnitude 19.1 via the Palomar 1.2-m Oschin Schmidt telescope on Aug. 4.38 UT, though no object is visible at the position of 2010ib on an image obtained on July 24.47 (limiting magnitude 20.1).

Publication
Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams