FLOYDS Classification of ASASSN-14lo as a Type Ia Supernova Near Peak

ATel #6811; Iair Arcavi (LCOGT), David Sand (Texas Tech), Curtis McCully, Stefano Valenti, Griffin Hosseinzadeh and D. Andrew Howell (LCOGT)
on 12 Dec 2014; 23:17 UT
Credential Certification: Iair Arcavi (iarcavi@lcogt.net)

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We obtained a spectrum of ASASSN-14lo (ATel #6794) on 2014 December 10 (UT) with the robotic FLOYDS instrument mounted on the Faulkes Telescope North. Using Superfit (Howell et al. 2005, ApJ 634, 1190) we find a good fit to the Type Ia SN 1996X around peak at the redshift of the proposed host galaxy (z=0.01993; NED).