Peter Nugent

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present observations of SCP 06F6, an unusual optical transient discovered during the Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey, which brightened over a period of ~100 days, reached a peak magnitude of 21.0 in both i_775 and z_850, and then declined over a similar timescale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Kast Spectrograph at the Lick 3 m telescope and the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope at Lick Observatory and with the 0.9 m telescope at the Brigham Young University West Mountain Observatory over the same period to determine the black hole mass in Zw 229-015 from Hβ reverberation mapping.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) reported the discovery of the transient source PTF11agg, which is distinguished by three primary characteristics: (1) bright (Rpeak = 18.3mag), rapidly fading (ΔR = 4mag in Δt = 2 days) optical transient emission; (2) a faint (R = 26.2 ± 0.2mag), blue (g � − R = 0.17 − 0.29mag) quiescent optical counterpart; and (3) an associated year-

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the discovery, classification, and extensive panchromatic (from radio to X-ray) follow-up observations of PTF11qcj, a supernova (SN) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF).