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PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #8902; M. Magee (QUB), I. Bar (Weizmann), J. Johansson (Weizmann), 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. Galbany (Univ. de Chile), J. Lyman (Univ. of Warwick), 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 4 Apr 2016; 14:25 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Stephen Smartt (s.smartt@qub.ac.uk)

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 La Silla-Quest survey (see Baltay et al., PASP, 2013, 125, 683) and 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 ). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2016 04 03, 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) and the IAU Transient Name Server.

 
Name      | RA (J2000)  | Dec (J2000)  | Disc. Date | Disc. Source | Disc Mag  |  z    | Type  | Phase    | Notes 
SN2016blj | 13 30 00.80 | -27 58 24.31 |  20160403  |     ASAS-SN  |   16.8    | 0.0345|  Ia   | at max   | 1 
SN2016blm | 15 48 38.72 | -03 19 03.7  |  20160325  |     LSQ      |   19.87   | 0.03  |  Ia   | at max   | 2

(1) Discovered originally as ASASSN-16dw. SNID gives good matches to several normal SNe Ia around maximum brightness. (2) Discovered originally as LSQ16ahs. SNID gives good matches to several normal SNe Ia around maximum brightness.