Spectroscopic Classification of PSST Optical Transients
ATel #8037; M. Huber, K. C. Chambers, H. Flewelling, M. Willman, N. Primak, A. Schultz, B. Gibson, E. Magnier, C. Waters, J. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat (IfA, Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. Wright, S. J. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast), R. J. Foley (Illinois), S. W. Jha (Rutgers), A. Rest (STScI), D. Scolnic (Chicago/KICP)
on 10 Sep 2015; 19:48 UT
Credential Certification: Mark Huber (mhuber@ifa.hawaii.edu)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient
We report spectroscopic classification of objects from the Pan-STARRS Survey for Transients (PSST; Huber et al., ATel #7153; http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/ps1threepi/ ). Observations were made with the SNIFS spectrograph on the UH 2.2m telescope (range 330-970nm, resolution R~1000) and the classification was done using SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
Object | RA (J2000) | DEC (J2000) | Disc. Date | Mag(filt) | Spec. Date | Type | z | Comments
PS15bwd | 23 17 10.73 | -19 41 02.6 | 20150906 | 19.80(r) | 20150909.37 | SNIa | 0.14 | near peak, possibly 91bg subtype
PS15bwh | 23 30 34.60 | -18 53 29.5 | 20150906 | 18.24(r) | 20150908.39 | SNIa | 0.07 | few days pre-peak (~6d)
PS15bvp | 20 39 07.79 | -20 14 40.5 | 20150905 | 17.87(w) | 20150908.37 | SNIa | 0.03 | post-peak (~8d), announced in ATel 8015
PS15bul | 23 43 56.43 | +30 22 09.9 | 20150828 | 18.49(i) | 20150907.59 | SNIa | 0.06 | near peak
