PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #8708; S. Taubenberger, T. Faran (ESO), M. Kromer (Stockholm University), N. Elias-Rosa (INAF - Padova), L. Galbany (MAS, DAS), M. Fraser (Cambridge), M. Dennefeld (IAP, UPMC), C. Inserra, E. Kankare, K. Maguire, S. J. Smartt, 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), J. Tonry, B. Stalder, L. Denneau., A. Heinze, A. Sherstyuk (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii), A. Rest (STScI)
on 18 Feb 2016; 16:34 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: N. Elias-Rosa (nancy.elias@oapd.inaf.it)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
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 ATLAS survey (see Tonry et al. 2011, PASP, 123, 58, and Tonry et al., ATel #8680), La Silla Quest Variability Survey (see Baltay et al. 2013, PASP, 125, 683), the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae ASAS-SN (see Shappee et al. 2014, ApJ, 788, 48 and http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml ), and ESA Gaia, DPAC and the Photometric Science Alerts Team (http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alertsc). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2016 February 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) and the Transient Name Server.
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc. Source | Disc Mag | z | Type | Phase | Notes
SN2016aez | 05 31 18.16 | -29 17 42.3 | 2016-02-05 | ATLAS | 18.1 | 0.038 | SNIa | a few days after max | a
SN2016ajb | 09 56 40.96 | -10 38 32.9 | 2016-02-11 | La Silla Quest | 21.1 | 0.069 | SNIa | around maximum light | b
SN2016aix | 01 44 16.90 | -41 53 37.1 | 2016-02-14 | Gaia / ASAS-SN | 17.2 | 0.029 | SNIa | ~ 1 week before max | c
a. Discovered originally as ATLAS16aas.
b. Discovered originally as LSQ16pz.
c. Discovered originally as Gaia 16ady and ASASSN-16bv. Possibly 91T-like SN Ia.
