Classification of optical transients with WiFeS
ATel #6040; M. Childress, R. Scalzo, F. Yuan, B. Schmidt (Australian National University), B. Tucker (Australian National University and University of California Bekerley)
on 2 Apr 2014; 18:45 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Michael Childress (mjc@mso.anu.edu.au)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
We report spectroscopic classification of optical transients 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). Discovery and classification information are found in the table below, targets were observed on 2014 Apr 02. The PS1 targets were provided from the 3Pi survey operated by the Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium (http://ps1sc.org) and made public via http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/ps1threepi/ (see Smartt et al. ATel #5850 and Inserra et al. 2013, ApJ, 770, 128 for a description of the 3Pi survey). Classifications were made with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc. Source | Disc Mag | z | Type | Phase | Notes
PS1-14vw | 09:58:08.07 | +07:57:50.3 | 20140325 | Pan-STARRS 1 | 18.7 | 0.091 | Ia | +14 | (1)
PS1-14vx | 10:41:51.41 | +16:49:01.0 | 20140325 | Pan-STARRS 1 | 18.8 | 0.057 | Ia | +23 | (2)
PSNJ12091001+3134257 | 12:09:10.01 | +31:34:25.7 | 20140325 | CRTS | 18.4 | 0.020 | Ia-91bg | +10 | (3)
CSS140326:122257+282955 | 12:22:57.30 | +28:29:54.9 | 20140326 | CRTS | 18.4 | 0.024 | II | +2 | (4)
PS1-14wl | 13:32:41.28 | -20:36:25.2 | 20140325 | Pan-STARRS 1 | 17.3 | 0.034 | Ia | +0 | (5)
Notes:
(1) Match to SN 2001cj.
(2) Match to SN 2008ar.
(3) Match to SN 2007al, also to SN 1991bg at +18.
(4) Match to the IIP SN 2004et.
(5) Match to SN 2005bo.
