Classification of LSQ13anm with GMOS-S, FLOYDS and WiFeS
ATel #5088; E. Hadjiyska, E. S. Walker, D. Rabinowitz, C. Baltay, N. Ellman, R. McKinnon (Yale), U. Feindt (U. Bonn), P. Nugent (LBNL/UCB), S. Valenti, M. L. Graham, D. A. Howell (LCOGT/UCSB), D. Sand (Texas Tech), J. T. Parrent (LCOGT/Dartmouth College), M. Childress (ANU), S. Margheim (GO), S. J. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast), A. Rest (STScI)
on 26 May 2013; 21:55 UT
Credential Certification: Ellie Hadjiyska (ellie.hadjiyska@yale.edu)
Subjects: Optical, Cataclysmic Variable, Transient, Variables
We report a spectroscopic classification of LSQ13anm located at RA = 13:56:01.82 Dec= -23:44:56.4. LSQ13anm was discovered on May 19.17 with the La Silla-QUEST survey (see ATel # 3812). A spectrum was obtained with GMOS-S (range 360-940 nm) exhibiting Balmer lines and HeI at zero redshift, indicating a possible CV or high amplitude stellar variable or outburst. We detect no obvious stellar counterpart in deep LSQ reference stacks to mag of around r ~ 20.5. A spectrum (range 350-1000 nm) obtained robotically on May 25.39 UT with the FLOYDS spectrograph at "Faulkes Telescope South" at Siding Spring as well as spectrum from the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS - Dopita et al., 2007, ApSS, 310, 255) on the ANU 2.3m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, NSW Australia both show a featureless blue continuum due to lower S/N.
