PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #6118; S. Benitez (MPA), J. Polshaw (QUB), C. Inserra (QUB), M. T. Botticella (OACN), E. S. Walker (Yale University), S. Benetti, A. Pastorello (Padova), 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), C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz (Yale University)
on 5 May 2014; 15:49 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Cosimo Inserra (c.inserra@qub.ac.uk)
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 May 04 UT, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution). Classifications were made 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).
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc. Source | Disc Mag | z | Type | Phase | Notes
LSQ14bdq | 10:01:41.60 | -12:22:13.4 | 20120521 | LSQ | 19.9 | 0.35 | I | pre-max | (1)
LSQ14bjh | 15:11:01.43 | +03:03:30.8 | 20140501 | LSQ | 19.4 | 0.04 | II | >30d | (2)
CSS140501-170414+174839| 17:04:13.69 | +17:48:39.4 | 20140501 | CRTS | 18.7 | 0.07 | Ia | -3d | (3)
LSQ14bjb | 21:36:03.55 | -56:19:18.5 | 20140430 | LSQ | 19.7 | 0.05 | -- | -- | (4)
(1) Blue continuum with absorption features between 5000 A and 6000 A comparable with Ca II and the O II triplet in absorption at z=0.35 +/-0.02 and usually seen in SLSNe Ic
(2) Best match to SN1992H at +40d since explosion
(3) Best match to several Type Ia before max (-3d < phase < -2d)
(4) Galactic red dwarf with two broad emission lines at 6560 A and 7040 A of FWHM 160 A and 114 A, respectively. These emissions are comparable with Halpha and TiO