SALT Classification of DES Supernova Candidates
ATel #7031; E. Kasai, B. Bassett (University of Cape Town, AIMS, SAAO), S. Crawford (SALT, SAAO), M. Smith (University of Southampton), R. Gupta, E. Kovacs, S. Kuhlmann, H. Spinka (Argonne National Laboratory), E. Ahn, D. A. Finley, J. Frieman, J. Marriner, W. Wester (Fermilab), G. Aldering, A. G. Kim, R. C. Thomas (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), K. Barbary, J. S. Bloom, D. Goldstein, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory + University of California, Berkeley), R. J. Foley (University of Illinois), F. J. Castander (ICE, IEEC/CSIC, Barcelona), S. Desai, K. Paech (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich), R. C. Smith (NOAO/CTIO), M. Schubnell (University of Michigan), R. Kessler, D. Scolnic (University of Chicago), R. A. Covarrubias (University of Illinois / NCSA), D. J. Brout, J. A. Fischer, L. Gladney, M. March, M. Sako, R. C. Wolf (University of Pennsylvania), P. J. Brown, K. Krisciunas, N. Suntzeff (Texas A&M University), C. D'Andrea, R. Nichol, A. Papadopoulos (University of Portsmouth), M. Sullivan (University of Southampton), R. Maartens (University of the Western Cape)
on 6 Feb 2015; 11:43 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Mathew Smith (matsmith2@gmail.com)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
We report optical spectroscopy of a supernova candidates discovered by the Dark Energy Survey. The spectra (400-850 nm) were obtained using the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) on the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). Classification was performed using SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024) and superfit (Howell et al. 2005, Ap.J. 634, 1190). Details of the observations are given below.
Name | RA (J2000)| Dec (J2000)|Discovery |Discovery|Spectrum |Redshift| Type | Phase |Notes
| | |Date (UT) |Mag (r) |Date (UT) | | | |
DES14X1oes |02:19:19.90|-05:47:22.0 |2014 Nov 25| 22.4 |2014 Dec 19 | 0.30 | Ia | +8 |
DES14E1rph |00:27:25.54|-42:51:01.5 |2014 Dec 11| 20.9 |2014 Dec 30 | 0.105 | Ia | +7 | a
a. Independently confirmed in ATEL 6932. Phase, redshift and type are in agreement.
