%0 Journal Article
%T Real-Time Detection and Rapid Multiwavelength Follow-up Observations of a Highly Subluminous Type II-P Supernova from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey
%A Avishay Gal-Yam
%A Mansi M. Kasliwal
%A Iair Arcavi
%A Yoav Green
%A Ofer Yaron
%A Sagi Ben-Ami
%A Dong Xu
%A Assaf Sternberg
%A Robert M. Quimby
%A Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
%A Eran O. Ofek
%A Richard Walters
%A Peter E. Nugent
%A Dovi Poznanski
%A Joshua S. Bloom
%A S. Bradley Cenko
%A Alexei V. Filippenko
%A Weidong Li
%A J. Silverman
%A Emma S. Walker
%A Mark Sullivan
%A K. Maguire
%A D. Andrew Howell
%A Paolo A. Mazzali
%A Dale A. Frail
%A David Bersier
%A Phil A. James
%A C. W. Akerlof
%A Fang Yuan
%A Derek B. Fox
%A Nicholas Law
%A Neil Gehrels
%J Physics
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%R 10.1088/0004-637X/736/2/159
%X The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is an optical wide-field variability survey carried out using a camera with a 7.8 square degree field of view mounted on the 48-in Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory. One of the key goals of this survey is to conduct high-cadence monitoring of the sky in order to detect optical transient sources shortly after they occur. Here, we describe the real-time capabilities of the PTF and our related rapid multiwavelength follow-up programs, extending from the radio to the gamma-ray bands. We present as a case study observations of the optical transient PTF10vdl (SN 2010id), revealed to be a very young core-collapse (Type II-P) supernova having a remarkably low luminosity. Our results demonstrate that the PTF now provides for optical transients the real-time discovery and rapid-response follow-up capabilities previously reserved only for high-energy transients like gamma-ray bursts.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0400v1