Spectroscopic Classification of PSN J09404755-0526119 and PSN J14041963-0703069 with WiFeS
ATel #4975; M. Childress, R. Scalzo, B. Tucker, F. Yuan, B. Schmidt (Australian National University)
on 13 Apr 2013; 03:51 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Michael Childress (mjc@mso.anu.edu.au)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
We report the following spectroscopic classification of two supernovae based on observations with the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS - Dopita et al., 2007, ApSS, 310, 255) on the ANU 2.3m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, NSW Australia, using the B3000/R3000 gratings (3500-9800 A, 1 A resolution). Targets were discovered by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (http://crts.caltech.edu/), Stan Howerton, and the Italian Supernova Search Project (ISSP - Simone Leonini, L.M. Tinjaca Ramirez, G. Guerrini and P. Rosi). Classifications were done using SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc. Source | Disc Mag | z | Type | Phase | Notes
PSN J09404755-0526119 | 09 40 47.55 | -05 26 11.9 | 20130407 | CRTS / Howerton | 18.5 | 0.020 | Ic | around max | (1)
PSN J14041963-0703069 | 14 04 19.63 | -07 03 06.9 | 20130404 | ISSP | 18.0 | 0.030 | II | 5-6 weeks | (2)
(1) Good match to SN 1994I at +3 days and SN 1991 N at max. Consistent with redshift of apparent host IC 553 (z=0.022; Huchra et al., 2012, ApJS, 199, 26).
(2) Best match with SN 1992H at 44 days. Consistent with redshift of apparent host PGC 50171 (z=0.028; Da Costa et al., 1998, AJ, 116, 1).
