SN 2009ip

"Supernova" SN2009ipSN2009ip has previously undergone more than one eruption over the past several years. In late August 2012, Drake et al. ( ATEL #4334) reported another eruption. It reached a peak in brightness and started to decline. But then on September 24-25 UT its brightness dramatically increased about 3 magnitudes in under 50 hours.

This page is a compilation of V, R, & I photometry of SN2009ip from various sources. All of the sources are listed below. But a majority of the most recent data is from Franz-Josef Hambsch and his Remote Observatory Atacama Desert. I want to specially thank and acknowledge Josch who has generously continued to feed us new images daily for this project.

I also want to thank T.-G. Tan & Ivan Curtis of the Perth Exoplanet Survey Telescope for the high cadence measurements and coverage in R-band that they have been providing (see the bottom of the page).

What's New Today

November 16, 2014

• • The paper was accepted to the Astronomical Journal at the end of August. I just approved the editorial proofs. Hopefully that means it will appear in the next issue.

  • LINK TO PAPER RECORD AT ADS HERE

Publications

Our data has been included in the following publications.

• Pastorello et al in the Astrophysical Journal

  • A talk presented at the Spring 2013 meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers in Boone, NC

  • Poster 118.05 presented June 3 at the Indianapolis American Astronomical Society Meeting

• Margutti et al. submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

• A paper by us in the Astronomical Journal.

  • Download a PDF of that paper here

  • Preprint at arXiv.

Spectroscopy

On October 9th UT, Terry Bohlsen of Australia got a spectrum of 2009ip. This is really impressive work for a C11 Telescope! I'll redirect you to his web page for details:

http://users.northnet.com.au/~bohlsen/Nova/sn2009ip.htm

Photometry

Sources of Data

The plots (unless otherwise noted) are a compilation of data from the following sources:

• • Brimacombe et al. ATEL #4423

  • F.-J. Hambsch, Remote Observatory Atacama Desert

  • Leonard et al. ATEL #4430

  • J.C. Martin et al. U of IL Barber Observatory

• TG Tan (Perth, Austrailia)

  • Ivan Curtis (Adelaide, Austrailia)

Comparison Stars

I have picked 20 stars within about six arc-minutes of SN 2009ip from the APASS (AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey) to use as comparison stars for reducing calibrated photometry. This is a large number of comparisons but it allows for better number statistics on the calibration and computed errors and ensures that a transient problem with one of those stars does not have a large influence on the overall solution.

Our calculated statistical errors on the solution range normally from 0.04 to 0.10 magnitudes. These one sigma error bars have been plotted on the (V-I) and (V-R) color plot, but are about the size of the points plotted on the other light curves

I have been used VPHOT to reduce the data.

Offsets with Respect to Pastorello et al.

Andrea Pastorello (http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3568) has generously provided me with the photometric offsets between the comparisons his group has been using and the APASS comparison photometry I have been using (and sharing with yall). The following corrections should be _added_ to photometry solutions done with APASS to directly compare with Pastorello et al.:

dV = +0.063 dR = +0.046 dI = +0.023

Please do NOT apply these corrections on photometry you are sending me. If you have that is okay, but I'd prefer not and please note clearly if you do. The purpose of these are for if you want to compare photometry you have measured using APASS standards with the work of Pastorello's group. In that case, apply those offsets before you make the comparison.

V-Band Photometry

The circles are data from sources listed above.