PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #4460; M. Fraser (Queens University Belfast), A. Sternberg (MPA Garching), Patrick El-Hage (LPHNE, Paris), C. Inserra (Queens University Belfast), S. Taubenberger (MPA), A. Pastorello, S. Valenti, S. Benetti (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), S. J. Smartt, K. Smith, 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)
on 7 Oct 2012; 17:01 UT
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Credential Certification: Cosimo Inserra (c.inserra@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). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2012 April 21, 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 (J2000)  | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc. Source | Disc Mag  |  z   | Type  | Phase | Notes
 
 LSQ12fgy | 04 18 55.81 | -07 31 33.7 |  20121002  |     LSQ      |   17.3    | 0.08 |  Gal  |           | Dominated by Galaxy light 
 LSQ12fhh | 03 16 31.54 | -00 28 03.6 |  20121002  |     LSQ      |   17.5    | 0.02 |  II   | +2-3 week | Normal, matches to several type II SNe