Spectroscopic classification of AT2020abkq and AT2020abcn

ATel #14257; Monika Soraisam (NCSA/UIUC), Kevin McKinnon, Rafael Nunez, Stephanie Figuereo, Puragra Guhathakurta (UCSC), Chien-Hsiu Lee, Thomas Matheson (NOIR Lab), Sarah DeSantis (Steward)
on 10 Dec 2020; 06:26 UT
Credential Certification: Monika Soraisam (soraisam@illinois.edu)

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We report the spectroscopic observations of the following transients from the SALVATION project. They were flagged from the ZTF public alert stream by the ANTARES alert-broker. The spectra were obtained on 2020 Dec 09 UT with the Kast double spectrograph on the Shane 3-m telescope at Lick Observatory.

 
Name          | IAU Name    | RA (J2000)   | Dec (J2000)   |  z      | Type   | Phase      
ZTF20acusqsp  | AT2020abkq  | 9h30m22.53s  | -21d27m12.97s |  0.06   | SN Ia  | near max.  
ZTF20acudkao  | AT2020abcn  | 11h27m42.09s | +10d18m46.28s |  0.04   | SN Ia  | near max. 
 
Note: 
Classification was performed with DASH (Muthukrishna et al. 2019, arXiv:1903.02557). 
Light curves can be accessed at https://antares.noirlab.edu/loci/ANT2020afcasra (ZTF20acusqsp) and https://antares.noirlab.edu/loci/ANT2020afatfjy (ZTF20acudkao)