PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #6094; J. Polshaw (Queen's University Belfast), S. Benitez, S. Taubenberger (MPA Garching), S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast), M. Fraser (University of Cambridge), J. Anderson (ESO Chile), N. Elias-Rosa, S. Benetti, A. Pastorello (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory), C. Inserra, K. Smith, D. Young (Queen's University Belfast), M. Sullivan (University of Southampton), S. Valenti (LCOGT/UCSB), O. Yaron, I. Manulis, A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute for Science), C. Knapic, R. Smareglia, M. Molinaro (INAF - Trieste Astronomical Observatory), C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz, E. S. Walker (Yale University), U. Feindt, M. Kowalski (Universitaet Bonn), P. Nugent (LBL Berkeley)
on 24 Apr 2014; 13:49 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Stefan Taubenberger (tauben@mpa-garching.mpg.de)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Valenti et al., ATel #4037; http://www.pessto.org ), reports the following supernova classification. The target was supplied by the La Silla-Quest survey (see Baltay et al. 2013, PASP, 125, 683). The observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla in the night starting on 2014 April 23 UT, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution). The classification was done with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024) and GELATO (Harutyunyan et al., 2008, A&A, 488, 383). The classification spectrum 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
LSQ14bef | 14 27 41.77 | -08 36 45.5 | 20140422 | LSQ | 19.8 | 0.05 | Ic-BL | -5d | (1)
(1) Good match with SN 2002ap at 5d before maximum.