Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 22-Mar-2024)

Result of query: info cati iPTF$

Details on Acronym:   iPTF
  
iPTF (intermediate Palomar Transient Factory)
Write:<<iPTF YYaaa>>
Object:Opt. Transient  (SIMBAD class: Transient = Transient Event)
Note:The intermediate Palomar Transient Factory survey is a fully-automated, wide-field survey for the systematic exploration of the optical transient sky. More information available at http://ptf.caltech.edu/iptf/
Only the first references are given here.
See also PTF.
Ref:=2013ApJ...775L...7C
byCAO Y. , KASLIWAL M.M., ARCAVI I., HORESH A., HANCOCK P., VALENTI S., CENKO S.B., KULKARNI S.R., GAL-YAM A., GORBIKOV E., OFEK E.O., SAND D., YARON O., GRAHAM M., SILVERMAN J.M., WHEELER J.C., MARION G.H., WALKER E.S., MAZZALI P., HOWELL D.A., LI K.L., KONG A.K.H., BLOOM J.S., NUGENT P.E., SURACE J., MASCI F., CARPENTER J., DEGENAAR N., GELINO C.R.
 Astrophys. J., 775L, 7 (2013)
  Discovery, progenitor and early evolution of a stripped envelope supernova iPTF13bvn.
o<iPTF YYaaa> (No. 13bvn).
Ref:=2013ApJ...776L..34S
bySINGER L.P. , CENKO S.B., KASLIWAL M.M., PERLEY D.A., OFEK E.O., BROWN D.A., NUGENT P.E., KULKARNI S.R., CORSI A., FRAIL D.A., BELLM E., MULCHAEY J., ARCAVI I., BARLOW T., BLOOM J.S., CAO Y., GEHRELS N., HORESH A., MASCI F.J., McENERY J., RAU A., SURACE J.A., YARON O.
 Astrophys. J., 776L, 34 (2013)
  Discovery and redshift of an optical afterglow in 71 °^{2}: iPTF13bxl and GRB 130702A.
o<iPTF YYaaa> N=6.
Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)