PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #6109; J. Polshaw (QUB), S. Benitez (MPA), K. Maguire (ESO), S. Benetti, A. Pastorello (Padova), C. Inserra, S. Smartt, K. Smith, D. Young (QUB), M. Sullivan (Southampton), S. Taubenberger (MPA), S. Valenti (LCOGT), M. Fraser (IoA), I. Manulis, O. Yaron, A. Gal-Yam, (Weizmann), C. Knapic, R. Smareglia, M. Molinaro (Trieste)
on 30 Apr 2014; 20:35 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Kate Maguire (kate.maguire@eso.org)
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 classifications. One target was supplied by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (http://crts.caltech.edu/). The observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla in the night starting on 2014 April 29 UT, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution). Classifications were made using superfit (Howell et al. 2005, ApJ 634, 1190) and GELATO (Harutyunyan et al., 2008, A&A, 488, 383). Classification spectra 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
MLS140425-152525-191348 | 15:25:25.01 | -19:13:47.6 | 20140425 | CRTS | 19.9 | - | - | - | (1)
SNhunt242 | 20:04:11.74 | -19:46:39.6 | 20140424 | SNhunt | 19.6 | 0.068 | IIb | ~10-20 d | (2)
(1) Flat spectrum, no broad features.
(2) Good spectral matches are found to IIb SNe such as SN 2011fu (Kumar et al. 2013) at ~10-20 d post explosion.
