SN Nebra
- Type
- Supernova, Ia (photometric)
- Status
- Candidate
- Lensing
- Single image, magnified
- Lensing cluster
- Abell 1763 (z = 0.232)
- Position
- 13:35:15.14 +41:00:15.7
- Discovered
- 2016
Likely Type Ia supernova at z ~ 2 behind Abell 1763, found in RELICS imaging; an initial estimate gave a magnification of about 2. Its host has only a photometric redshift (Golubchik et al. 2023).
Papers
- ATel 9224
RELICS Discovery of a Probable Lens-magnified SN behind Galaxy Cluster Abell 1763 - Coe et al. (2019)
RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey - Golubchik et al. (2023)
A search for transients in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS): three new supernovae