PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #8640; G. Terreran (QUB, INAF Padova), A. Cikota (ESO), N. Elias-Rosa (INAF Padova), E. Cappellaro, S. Benetti (INAF Padova), A. De Cia (ESO), 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), L. Wyrzykowski,(Warsaw Observatory, Poland), D. Wright (QUB), K. Chambers, H. Flewelling, M. Huber, E. Magnier, J. Tonry, C. Waters, R. J. Wainscoat (IfA, Univ. Hawaii)
on 5 Feb 2016; 16:01 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Enrico Cappellaro (enrico.cappellaro@oapd.inaf.it)

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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 Pan-STARRS Survey for Transients (see Huber et al., ATel #7153), 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 February 04th, 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 and additional details 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 
OGLE16alt | 05:55:10.82 | -62:15:59.1 | 2015-12-29 | OGLE         |  21.27 | 0.0538| SNII   |  >+20   | a  
SN2016zr  | 09:13:54.15 | +29:04:52.8 | 2016-01-29 | PS1-QUB      |  19.15 | 0.0536| SNII   |  ~+10   | a,b 

a. Redshift derived from strong galactic emission lines. Phase from explosion

b. Also known as PS16abo