PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #4545; F. Bufano (UNAB), S. Gonzalez-Gaitan (U. de Chile), S. Marchi (U. de Chile), F. Forster (U. de Chile), J. Anderson (U. de Chile), S. Taubenberger (MPA Garching), S. Valenti (UCSB/LCOGT), A. Pastorello, S. Benetti (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory), S. J. Smartt, K. Smith, D. Young (Queen's University Belfast), M. Sullivan (University of Southampton), 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 5 Nov 2012; 19:45 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Joseph Anderson (anderson@das.uchile.cl)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient
PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Valenti et al., ATel #4037; http://www.pessto.org ), reports the following transient 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 November 4th, 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
LSQ12fxd | 05 22 17.02 | -25 35 47.1 | 20121031 | LSQ | 18.38 | 0.032| Ia | -9d to -7d | Best match to 2006le (Ia normal)
LSQ12ftr | 04 26 41.32 | -20 58 13.5 | 20121031 | LSQ | 16.41 | 0.00 | stellar | | Galactic star