Gaia16awt transient classified at the Cassini 1.5m telescope
ATel #9283; Giuseppe Altavilla (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy), Roberto Gualandi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy)
on 31 Jul 2016; 00:22 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Giuseppe Altavilla (giuseppe.altavilla@oabo.inaf.it)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
We obtained a spectrum of the Gaia Science Alerts transient Gaia16awt (http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts) on 2016 July 29.93 UT at the 1.5m G.D. Cassini Telescope (Loiano) with BFOSC. The spectrum, obtained with gr4 and a 2.5" slit, cover the ~3700-8000 A range with a resolution of ~16 A. The best match obtained with the GEneric cLAssification TOol (GELATO, Harutyunyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383; available at URL https://gelato.tng.iac.es/login.cgi), assuming z=0.03, is with the type IIp SN 1995ad 24 days from explosion.
We acknowledge ESA Gaia (http://cosmos.esa.int/gaia), and the DPAC Photometric Science Alerts Team (http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts).
