PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #8561; C. Frohmaier, G. Dimitriadis, R. Firth (Southampton), L. Galbany (MAS/DAS), A. De Cia (ESO), M. Dennefeld (IAP, UPMC), 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)
on 18 Jan 2016; 17:48 UT
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Credential Certification: Mathew Smith (matsmith2@gmail.com)

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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). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2016 January 17th, 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
 
LSQ16bh   | 11:52:34.52 | -08:46:11.9 | 2016-01-14 | LSQ          |  18.10   | 0.035 |  SNII  | Pre-max | a 
LSQ16bs   | 13:31:53.82 | -29:40:59.3 | 2016-01-11 | LSQ          |  17.88   | 0.0   |  Nova  |   ---   | b 
 
a. A blue continuum with broad, faint, Halpha, matching the galaxy redshift of 0.035254 
b. Consistent with a nova outburst.