PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #4624; K. Maguire, Y. Pan (Oxford), L. Le Guillou, S. Baumont (LPNHE), M. Sullivan (Sou thampton), 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), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron (Weizmann Institute for Science), C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. M cKinnon, D. Rabinowitz, E. S. Walker (Yale University), U. Feindt, M. Kowalski ( Universitat Bonn), P. Nugent (LBL Berkeley)
on 7 Dec 2012; 00:30 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Sylvain Baumont (baumont@lpnhe.in2p3.fr)

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PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient The 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 December 05, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution), except for LSQ12gdj which was observed with Grisms 11 (3380-7520A, 13A resolution) and 16 (6010-10330A, 13A reolution). 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
 
LSQ12gxj | 02 52 58    | +01 36 24   |  20121201  |     LSQ      |   19.4    | 0.032 |  Ia    | pre-max | about -1 week 
LSQ12gzm | 02 40 44    | -34 44 26   |  20121204  |     LSQ      |   18.4    | 0.100 |  Ia    | pre-max | 
LSQ12gpw | 03 12 58    | -11 42 40   |  20121122  |     LSQ      |   18.8    | 0.058 |  Ia-pec |  0d   | weak abs. lines. (2006gz-like) 
LSQ12hcm | 03 42 08    | +04 13 54   |  20121205  |     LSQ      |   20.0    | 0.028 |  II?   | <0 ? | blue continuum, weak H-lines 
LSQ12gxh | 10 10 08    | -07 00 13   |  20121201  |     LSQ      |   18.3    | 0.054 |  II    | >50d  | up to 100d   | 
LSQ12hbo | 10 56 16    | -20 51 32   |  20121205  |     LSQ      |   18.2    | 0.013 |  IIb   | >30d | up to 60d   |