PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #4774; N. Elias-Rosa, A. Morales Garoffolo (ICE-IEEC/CSIC Barcelona), S. Benitez-Herrera, S. Taubenberger (MPA Garching), E. S. Walker (Yale University), S. Benetti, A. Pastorello (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory), S. Valenti (LCOGT/UCSB), 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)
on 31 Jan 2013; 20:02 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Stefan Taubenberger (tauben@mpa-garching.mpg.de)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
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 OGLE-IV Transient Search (see Wyrzykowski
et al., ATEL #4495). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla in the night starting
on 2013 January 30 UT, 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
OGLE-2013-SN-012 | 05 09 52.38 | -65 39 48.5 | 20130122 | OGLE-IV | 19.3 | 0.08 | ? | ? | See note (1)
(1) Low-S/N spectrum showing a blue, largely featureless continuum. Weak, narrow Balmer emission lines are detected at z = 0.08.
Possibly this is a young type IIn SN.