Real-Time Detection and Rapid Multiwavelength Follow-up Observations of a Highly Subluminous Type II-P Supernova from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey by Gal-Yam, A, Kasliwal, M, Arcavi, I, Green, Y, Yaron, O, Ben-Ami, S, Xu, D, Sternberg, A, Quimby, R, Kulkarni, SR, Ofek, E, Walters, R, Nugent, P, Poznanski, D, Bloom, J, Cenko, S, Filippenko, A, Li, W, Silverman, J, Walker, E, Sullivan, M, Maguire, K, Howell, D, Mazzali, P, Frail, D

“…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. …”

Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory by Rau, A, Kulkarni, SR, Law, N, Bloom, J, Ciardi, D, Djorgovski, G, Fox, D, Gal-Yam, A, Grillmair, C, Kasliwal, M, Nugent, P, Ofek, E, Quimby, R, Reach, W, Shara, M, Bildsten, L, Cenko, S, Drake, A, Filippenko, A, Helfand, D, Helou, G, Howell, D, Poznanski, D, Sullivan, M

“…PTF uses the CFH12k mosaic camera, with a field of view of 7.9 deg^2 and a plate scale of 1 asec/pixel, mounted on the the Palomar Observatory 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope. The PTF operation strategy is devised to probe the existing gaps in the transient phase space and to search for theoretically predicted, but not yet detected, phenomena, such as fallback supernovae, macronovae, .Ia supernovae and the orphan afterglows of gamma-ray bursts. …”