PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #4300; Flora Cellier-Holzem (LPHNE, Paris), S. J. Smartt, C. Inserra, M. Fraser, D. Wright, D. R. Young, K. W. Smith (Queens University Belfast), A. Pastorello, S. Valenti, S. Benetti (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), S. Taubenberger (MPA), M. Sullivan (University of Oxford), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron (Weizmann Institute for Science), S. Howerton (Arkansas City, KS, USA), C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz (Yale University), U. Feindt, M. Kowalski (Universitat Bonn), P. Nugent (LBL Berkeley)
on 9 Aug 2012; 11:51 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Morgan Fraser (mfraser02@qub.ac.uk)

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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 August 8, 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 WISeREP).

 
Name      | RA          | Dec         | Disc. Date | Disc. source | Disc. Mag | Redshift | Type    | Phase       | Notes   
SNHunt141 | 13:37:57.21 | -17:54:27.2 | 20120724   | CRTS         | 16.1      | 0.004    | SN IIP  | +20-30d     | aka PSNJ13375721-1754272, absorption bluewards of Halpha which could be SiII or high velocity H   
LSQ12dwf  | 21:33:54.00 | +00:08:56.8 | 20120724   | LSQ          | 20.5      | 0.12     | SN Ia   | around peak | Normal, match to 89B 
LSQ12dle  | 01:40:44.23 | -25:15:53.6 | 20120710   | LSQ          | 18.5      | 0.05     | SN Ia   | +21d        | Normal, match to 94D 
LSQ12ecd  | 22:37:54.79 | -21:07:46.2 | 20120722   | LSQ          | 19.5      | 0.09     | SN Ia   | +12d        | Normal, match to 96X. SN is in satellite galaxy projected ~30kpc from 2MASX J22375370-2107397 (and at same redshift) 
SNHunt142 | 20:57:53.92 | -51:52:24.8 | 20120725   | CRTS         | 18.9      | 0.016    | SN Ic   | around peak | aka PSN J20575392-5152248, match to 97dq