WiFeS classification of AT2017gry/Gaia17chn as a young Type IIP Supernova
ATel #10769; Syed Uddin (Purple Mountain Observatory), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne University of Technology), Ju-Jia Zhang (Yunnan Observatories), Lifan Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory and TAMU), Xiaofeng Wang (Tsinghua University)
on 23 Sep 2017; 13:51 UT
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Credential Certification: Syed Uddin (saushuvo@gmail.com)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient, Variables
On September 22.5, 2017, we obtained a spectrum of a supernova candidate AT2017gry/Gaia17chn with the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS - Dopita et al., 2007, ApSS, 310, 255) on board 2.3m ANU telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. We classify the candidate as a young Type IIP supernova at a redshift of 0.02 by cross-correlating with a library of supernova spectra using the SuperNova IDentification code (SNID- Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).