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2024-05-04 18:30:06
Type: Object/s-Data/Analysis
DAO Photometric Follow Up of Nine selected Optical Transients
Authors: D. D. Balam (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, National Research Council of Canada)
Source Group: DAO_OTS
Abstract:
Here we present multi-band photometric follow up observations of 9 optical transients using 1.82-m Plaskett Telescope + CCD at Dominion Astrophysical Observatory of the National Research Council of Canada.

 

Photometry of Optical Transients
transient UT g (SDSS) r (SDSS) g - r  Secondary Standard
2024gmu 2024 04 17.467 18.29 (0.02) 17.92 (0.01) +0.37 (0.03 SDSS J155633.23+590141.1
2024goi 2024 04 17.443 18.95 (0.03) 18.68 (0.02) +0.27 (0.03) SDSS J154138.08+541223.1
2024gsb 2024 04 18.363 18.97 (0.02) 18.77 (0.02) +0.20 (0.03) SDSS J132144.42+571130.6
2024hjy 2024 05 02.440 19.77 (0.03) 18.75 (0.02) +1.02 (0.03) SDSS J161152.13+124535.3
2024hlr 2024 05 02.406 19.08 (0.05) 18.14 (0.03) +0.94 (0.03) SDSS J151038.81+494659.4
2024hnf 2024 05 02.336 18.64 (0.03) 18.35 (0.03) +0.29 (0.04) SDSS J141133.10+572541.1
2024hrk 2024 05 02.475 20.51 (0.09) 20.21 (0.12) +0.30 (0.15) SDSS J162138.04+490456.8
2024hsw 2024 05 03.211 19.48 (0.03) 19.20 (0.03) +0.28 (0.04) SDSS J111507.26+662741.2
2024huw 2024 05 03.474 18.90 (0.02) 18.51 (0.02) +0.39 (0.03) PS  135032612218865570

The transient host galaxy light in our photometric measurement is minimized via one of two methods: Reference images are downloaded from the PanSTARRS image access (Flewelling, H. A., et al.) and are convolved, using the nightly PSF to match our images. The reference is then subtracted from our co-added images. A secondary photometric standard is defined and retained on the subtracted image using a pixel mask. 

A second method involves creating a model galaxy, using the IRAF artdata packages, scaling it to the images and subtracting the host galaxy. The differential photometry  was then performed using Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF) (Tody, D. 1986, "The IRAF Data Reduction and Analysis System").

 

 

 

footnote:

* 2024ehs - additional Sloan filter observations were obtained yielding the following differential magnitudes: u = 17.18 (0.03) and i = 16.76 (0.03)

 

Several different secondary standards were used from SDSS DR16 (Ahumada+, 2020) and PS1 Survey DR1 (Chambers+, 2016) to perform differential photometry using Image Reduction and Analysis Facility. 

*z values are photoZ (KD-tree method) and spectrscopic z from Sloan Digtial Sky Survey (SDSS) Sky Server. * host_g magnitudes are also derived from Sloan Digtial Sky Survey (SDSS) Sky Server.