PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transientsPESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #4644; K. Maguire, Y. Pan (Oxford), L. Le Guillou, S. Baumont (LPNHE), M. Sullivan (Southampton), 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. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz, E. S. Walker (Yale University), U. Feindt, M. Kowalski (Universitat Bonn), P. Nugent (LBL Berkeley)
on 12 Dec 2012; 16:00 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 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 December 11, 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
 
LSQ12hdl | 03 33 44    | -30 19 04   |  20121107  |     LSQ      |   20.2    | 0.131 | IIn? | pre-max | AGN-type can't be ruled out 
LSQ12heq | 03 33 04    | -28 12 49.6 |  20121202  |     LSQ      |   20.1    | 0.15  |  ?   | pre-max | Blue featureless continuum