WiFeS Spectroscopic Classification of AT2019qru/Gaia19efj as a Young Type II Supernova
ATel #13129; Syed Uddin (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne University of Technology), Lifan Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory and TAMU), Harrison Abbot (Australian National University), Brad Tucker (Mt Stromlo Observatory), Ju-Jia Zhang (Yunnan Observatories)
on 25 Sep 2019; 03:29 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Syed Uddin (saushuvo@gmail.com)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
On September 23, 2019, we obtained spectrum of AT2019qru/Gaiaefj 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 II Supernova, around 10 days before maximum phase, by cross-correlating with a library of supernova spectra using the SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
