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Discovery of a Cosmological, Relativistic Outburst via its Rapidly Fading Optical Emission
S. Bradley Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, Assaf Horesh +26
We report the discovery by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) of the transient source PTF11agg, which is distinguished by three primary characteristics: (1) bright, rapidly fading…
Evidence for a compact Wolf-Rayet progenitor for the Type Ic supernova PTF 10vgv
A. Corsi, E. O. Ofek, A. Gal-Yam +22
We present the discovery of PTF 10vgv, a Type Ic supernova detected by the Palomar Transient Factory, using the Palomar 48-inch telescope (P48). R-band observations of the PTF 10vg…
PTF 10bzf (SN 2010ah): a broad-line Ic supernova discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory
A. Corsi, E. O. Ofek, D. A. Frail +26
We present the discovery and follow-up observations of a broad-line type-Ic supernova (SN), PTF 10bzf (SN 2010ah), detected by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) on 2010 February…