PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #4076; S. Valenti, A. Pastorello, E. Cappellaro (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory), S. Benitez-Herrera, S. Taubenberger (MPA Garching), S. J. Smartt, D. Young (Queen's University Belfast), M. Sullivan (University of Oxford), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron (Weizmann Institute for Science), C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz (Yale University), U. Feindt, M. Kowalski (Universitat Bonn), P. Nugent (LBL Berkeley), G. Pignata (Universidad Andres Bello).
on 29 Apr 2012; 14:37 UT
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Credential Certification: Stefano Benetti (stefano.benetti@oapd.inaf.it)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Valenti et al., ATel #4037; http://www.pessto.org ),
reports the following supernova classifications. Targets were supplied by the La Silla-Quest survey (see Hadjiyska et al.,
ATel #3812) and the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (http://crts.caltech.edu/). All observations were performed
on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2012 April 29, 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) |Disc. Date|Disc. source|Disc. Mag| z | Type | Phase |Notes
LSQ12cer | 13:17:08.45 | -20:24:41.8 | 20120424 | LSQ | 17.7 | 0.024* | II | 1 week |
LSQ12cby | 13 38 14.78 | -20 17 58.9 | 20120420 | LSQ | 19.0 | 0.093 | Ia | -3 |
LSQ12cbo | 14 59 38.16 | +21 19 04.8 | 20120419 | LSQ | 19.9 | 0.123 | Ia | +1 |
LSQ12cca | 13 59 06.43 | -14 35 46.0 | 20120420 | LSQ | 19.1 | 0.104 | Ia | +11 |
CSS120421:143501-071918 | 14 35 00.76 | -07 19 17.8| 20120421 | CRTS | 19.4 | 0.066 | II |few weeks|
CSS120424:151613-095504 | 15 16 13.05 | -09 55 03.9 | 20120424 | CRTS | 19.4 | 0.116 | Ia | +6 |
PSNJ20522510-0546156 | 20 52 25.10 | -05 46 15.6 | 20120422 | CHASE# | 17.8 | 0.020* | II | 2 weeks |
PSNJ18410706-4147374 | 18 41 07.06 | -41 47 37.4 | 20120425 | BOSS | 14.5 | 0.019 | IIn | | 07cy-like
* Redshift from the NASA Extragalactic Database (NED)
# CHASE is "The CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch" (Pignata et al. 2009 Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, 35, 317)
Spectrum of the candidate LSQ12cbv ÃÂ (RA:16 45 07.58 ÃÂ DEC:ÃÂ -24 31 14.9) shows that this object is a galactic variable star.