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All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae

(ASAS-SN, ASASSN)
(survey of both hemispheres for supernovae)

The All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) is a survey using 24 telescopes around the world. (It began with four telescopes at Haleakala Hawaii, and four at Cerro Tololo, Chile.) It is an improved version of All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) with better sensitivity for discovering more transients including distant supernovae, able to detect new objects with magnitudes 8 to 18. Discovered objects are labeled ASASSN-xxxx, the latter part being two digits and two letters.


(survey,transients,supernovae,all sky)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Sky_Automated_Survey_for_SuperNovae
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014AcA....64..115S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...788...48S/abstract
PrefixExample  
ASASSNASASSN-15lh 

Referenced by pages:
All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS)
Haleakala Observatory
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
supernova survey

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