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PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #4039; S. Benitez-Herrera, S. Taubenberger (MPA Garching) S. Valenti, A. Pastorello, S. Benetti (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory), S. J. Smartt, D. Young (Queen's University Belfast), M. Sullivan (University of Oxford), C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz (Yale University), P. Nugent (LBNL/UCB), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron (Weizmann Institute for Science), on behalf of the PESSTO collaboration.
on 13 Apr 2012; 17:21 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Stephen Smartt (s.smartt@qub.ac.uk)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae

Referred to by ATel #: 4064

PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Valenti et al., ATel #4037; http://www.pessto.org ), reports the following supernova classifications. Most targets were supplied by the La Silla-Quest survey (see Hadjiyska et al., ATel #3812). SNhunt119 was discovered by S. Howerton in course of the Supernova Hunt project (http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/catalina/current.html). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2012 April 11 and 12, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution). Classifications were done with SNID (Blondin & Tonry 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024) and GELATO (Harutyunyan et al., 2008, A&A, 488, 383). Classification spectra can be obtained from http://www.pessto.org (via WISEASS).

Name       | RA (J2000)   | Dec (J2000)   |Dis. Date | Source   | Disc. Mag      | Redshift   | Type      | Phase   and  Notes 
SNhunt119  | 06:51:13.03  | -30:24:58.68  | 20120323 | CRTS     | unkn.          | 0.025      | II        | few weeks after explosion 
LSQ12bgl   | 10:47:46.74  | -06:04:20.64  | 20120317 | LSQ      | 18.83          | 0.091      | Ia        | +19    -19.6 at max 
LSQ12bia   | 10:28:33.79  | -10:34:41.52  | 20120319 | LSQ      | 18.29          | 0.053      | Ia        | +14         
LSQ12bph   | 15:47:32.42  | +23:04:46.38  | 20120401 | LSQ      | 19.25          | 0.045      | Ic        | +15  similar to 02ap, low S/N 
LSQ12bpo   | 11:23:32.49  | -12:23:58.92  | 20120402 | LSQ      | 19.43          | 0.120      | Ia        |  +4