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PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #8559; R. Firth, C. Frohmaier, G. Dimitriadis (Southampton), A. De Cia (ESO), L. Galbany (MAS/DAS), C. Inserra (QUB), E. Kankare (QUB), K. Maguire (QUB), S. J. Smartt (QUB), K. W. Smith (QUB), M. Sullivan (Southampton), S. Valenti (UC Davis), O. Yaron (Weizmann), D. Young (QUB), I. Manulis (Weizmann), C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz, S. Rostami (Yale University), U. Feindt, M. Kowalski (Universitat Bonn), P. Nugent (LBL Berkeley), L. Wyrzykowski (Warsaw Observatory, Poland)
on 18 Jan 2016; 01:50 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Robert Firth (r.firth@soton.ac.uk)

Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient

Referred to by ATel #: 8577, 8579, 8644

PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Smartt et al. 2015, A&A, 579, 40 http://www.pessto.org ), reports the following supernova classifications. Targets were supplied by the La Silla-Quest survey (see Baltay et al., PASP, 2013, 125, 683) and OGLE-IV Real-time Transient Search (Wyrzykowski et al., 2014 arxiv:1409.1095; http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/ ). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2016 January 16th, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution). Classifications were done 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
LSQ16ar | 03:56:21.42 | -40:40:02.8 | 2016-01-09 | LSQ | 18.46 | 0.077 | Ia | +5 | LSQ16bu | 13:23:32.33 | -23:53:40.2 | 2016-01-11 | LSQ | 17.97 | 0.041 | Ia | At Peak | OGLE15xg | 02:29:54.78 | -70:48:55.6 | 2015-11-22 | OGLE | 20.51 | 0.061 | II | > +20 | OGLE16aaa | 01:07:20.88 | -64:16:20.7 | 2015-12-21 | OGLE | 20.54 | - | | | Blue Continuum (1)

Notes:
(1) - Object is slowly rising and centrally located within host galaxy, thus is considered a possible TDE