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PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #5602; D. Bersier (Liverpool JMU), M. Dennefeld (IAP), S. J. Smartt, K. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), S. Benetti, A. Pastorello, (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory), S. Valenti (LCOGT/UCSB), S. Taubenberger (MPA Garching), D. Young, C. Inserra (Queen's University Belfast), M. Sullivan (University of Southampton), M. Fraser (University of Cambridge), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron, I. Manulis (Weizmann Institute for Science), R. Scalzo (ANU), C. Knapic, M. Molinaro, R. Smareglia (Trieste), 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), L. Wyrzykowski (OGLE)
on 26 Nov 2013; 16:32 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Stephen Smartt (s.smartt@qub.ac.uk)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae

Referred to by ATel #: 5608

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) and OGLE-IV (ATel #4495; Wyrzykowski et al. 2012). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2013 November 25, 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).
Data users should note that during the night the detector suffered correlated read noise problems and the spectral data show this signal. The classifications are secure, but anyone using the data from this night should note the problem. (it is described on the PESSTO wiki).

 
 Name           | RA (J2000)  | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc. Source | Disc Mag  |  z  | Type | Phase  | Notes
LSQ13dby | 03:26:42.81 | -34:38:06.1 | 20131120 | LSQ | 20.0 | 0.10| Ia | pre-max| apparently hostless, to r~22 LSQ13dcy | 04:55:16.42 | -20:00:05.7 | 20131121 | LSQ | 20.0 | 0.08| Ia | max | around or few days after OGLE-2013-SN-120| 05:41:49.26 | -65:13:05.4 | 20131111 | OGLE-IV | 19.0 | 0.08| Ia | +10 | some host contamination OGLE-2013-SN-123| 05:58:30.37 | -63:33:38.3 | 20131113 | OGLE-IV | 19.3 | 0.07| Ia | max | (1)

(1) Strong host contamination, seeing poor. Clear Ia signature, likely around peak but likely uncertainty is -4/+9d