Spectroscopic Classifications of Optical Transients with the Lick Shane telescope
ATel #17953; Kishore C. Patra, Ryan J. Foley (UCSC)
on 10 Aug 2026; 02:27 UT
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Credential Certification: Kishore Patra (kcpatra@ucsc.edu)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient
We report the following classifications of optical transients from spectroscopic observations with the Kast spectrograph on the Shane telescope. The targets were supplied by Pan-STARRS and GOTO. Observations were made on 2026 August 09 UT. Classifications were performed with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
Name | IAU Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | z | Type | Phase | Notes
PS26fjj | AT2026vjl | 16:16:34.539 | +20:55:15.14 | 0.077 | SN Ia | 3 d | (1)
GOTO26hqg | AT2026xaq | 20:23:39.234 | +11:42:39.36 | 0.05 | SN Ia | -7 d | (2)
Notes:
When the redshift is given to 2 decimal places, it is derived from the SN spectrum. Otherwise, the redshift is determined from the host galaxy.
(1) We measure Si II 6355 velocity of -10,400 km/s.
(2) We measure Si II 6355 velocity of -12,500 km/s.
