PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #4469; A. Sternberg (MPA Garching), Patrick El-Hage (LPHNE, Paris), M. Fraser (Queens University Belfast), 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 9 Oct 2012; 16:46 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
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) 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 October 08, 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
 
 CSS121005212556+122328 | 21 25 55.86    |  12 23 27.7  |  20121005  |     CRTS      |   17.3    | 0.04 |  Ia   | 10d   | Match to several Ia 
 CSS121004204336-055316 | 20 43 35.90    | -05 53 16.3  |  20121004  |     CRTS      |   17.4    | 0.0  |  CV   |       |  
 CSS121006015926+014412 | 01 59 25.98    |  01 44 11.8  |  20121006  |     CRTS      |   17.5    | 0.08 |  Ia   | -2d   | 9iT-like 
 LSQ12fgx               | 03 34 56.10    | -06 52 52.8  |  20120820  |     LSQ       |   16.4    | 0.0  |stellar|       |  
 LSQ12ffm               | 05 15 58.54    |  08 44 34.1  |  20120919  |     LSQ       |   19.9    | 0.15 |  ?    |   ?   | (1) 
  

(1) Flat continuum, broad features between 4000A and 7000A. Ha and Hb emission (no P-Cygni profile) visible at the rest wavelength (z=0.148). Possible Type Ic SN after peak. A host galaxy is visible in the reference image but it is not in the NED (http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu) archive.