Asiago spectroscopic classification of PSN J13480490+6149153
ATel #7906; G. Terreran, M. Turatto, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, N. Elias-Rosa, P. Ochner, A. Pastorello, L. Tartaglia, L. Tomasella (INAF OAPd)
on 13 Aug 2015; 12:21 UT
Credential Certification: Lina Tomasella (lina.tomasella@oapd.inaf.it)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
The Asiago Transient Classification Program (Tomasella et al. 2014, AN, 335, 841) reports the spectroscopic classification of PSN J13480490+6149153 in the galaxy UGC 8734 discovered by E. Briggs, D. Post, Jack Newton, and Tim Puckett.
Informations on these transients are also available from the "Bright Supernova" website (http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/) and the CBAT Transient Object Followup Reports (http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html). The observations were performed with the Asiago 1.82 m Copernico Telescope (+AFOSC; range 340-820 nm; resolution 1.4 nm).
Name | Discovery | z | Type | Observation date | Phase | Notes
PSN J13480490+6149153 | 2015-07-02.240 | 0.031 | Ia | 2015-08-12.8 | ~5 weeks | (1)
(1) Best match with the normal Ia SN 2013du. Also a very good match with the 91T-like SN 1999aa.
Classifications were done with SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024). The Asiago classification spectra are posted at the website http://sngroup.oapd.inaf.it.
Padova Asiago SN group
