Spectroscopic classification of AT2019esa as a Type IIn Supernova
ATel #12736; Syed A Uddin (The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne University of Technology), Lifan Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory and Texas A & M University), Brad Tucker (Mt Stromlo Observatory, ANU), Andrew Zic (The University of Sydney)
on 8 May 2019; 00:13 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Syed Uddin (saushuvo@gmail.com)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
Referred to by ATel #: 12820
On May 6, 2019, we obtained spectra of the optical transient AT2019esa located in the nearby galaxy ESO 035-G018 (z=0.006) 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 transient as a Type IIn Supernova (SN IIn) by cross-correlating with a library of supernova spectra using GELATO (Harutyunyan et al., 2008, A&A, 488, 383).
