PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #4952; S. Taubenberger (MPA Garching), S. Hachinger (Univ. Wuerzburg), A. Morales-Garoffolo, N. Elias-Rosa (ICE-IEEC/CSIC Barcelona), E. S. Walker (Yale University), M. Fraser (Queen's University Belfast), 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 5 Apr 2013; 08:39 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: N. Elias-Rosa (nelias@ice.cat)

Tweet

PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Valenti et al., ATel #4037; http://www.pessto.org ), reports the following supernova classifications. The target was supplied by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (http://crts.caltech.edu/). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2013 April 03, 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

SSS130402:141135-282828 | 14 11 35.49 | -28 28 27.6 | 20130402 | CRTS | 17.7 | 0 | stellar | - | (1)

(1) Spectrum shows a blue continuum with Balmer series absorption lines. We suggest this object could be a a pre-cataclysmic variable or a mildly interacting cataclysmic variable.