A Supernova Candidate from the Siding Spring Survey
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2010
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We report the discovery of the first supernova candidate from the Siding Spring Survey (SSS) by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS). The detection has the following details: <table border=1 width=650 align=center> <tr><th>ID</th><th>Disc. Date</th><th>RA</th><th>Dec</th><th>Disc. Mag</th></tr> <tr align=center><td><a href='http://crts.caltech.edu/ATEL/SSS/1005080151534122262.atel.html'> SSS100508:210144-143830</a></td><td> 2010-05-08 </td><td> 21:01:44.10 </td><td> -14:38:30.5 </td><td> 16.4</tr> </table> The host galaxy, 2MFGC 15924 (=PGC 187888), has redshift z=0.0275 (Jones et al....