Cenko, S. Bradley; Kulkarni, S. R.; Horesh, Assaf; Corsi, A.; Fox, Derek B.; Carpenter, John; Frail, Dale A.; Nugent, Peter E.; Perley, Daniel A.; Gruber, D.; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Groot, P.; Hallinan, G.; Ofek, Eran O.; Rau, Arne; MacLeod, Chelsea L.; Miller, Adam A.; Bloom, Joshua S.; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Kasliwal, Mansi M.; Law, Nicholas M.; Morgan, Adam N.; Polishook, David; Poznanski, Dovi; Quimby, Robert M.; Sesar, Branimir; Shen, Ken J.; Silverman, Jeffrey M.; Sternberg, Assaf
(Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2013-06)
We report the discovery by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) of the transient source PTF11agg, which is distinguished by three primary characteristics: (1) bright (R[subscript peak] = 18.3 mag), rapidly fading (ΔR = 4 ...