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Spectroscopic Classification of DLT18w/AT2018bko with SOAR

ATel #11639; Y.-C. Pan, R. J. Foley (UCSC)
on 13 May 2018; 04:28 UT
Credential Certification: Yen-Chen Pan (ypan6@ucsc.edu)

Subjects: Transient

We report the classification of DLT18w/AT2018bko (ATel #11638) from spectroscopic observation performed on 2018 May 13 UT with the Goodman spectrograph on the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope. The spectrum appears to be blue and shows Balmer absorption lines at z=0, indicating that the transient is Galactic.