PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #8945; M. Magee (QUB), I. Bar, J. Johansson, P. M. Vreeswijk, G. Leloudas (Weizmann), 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), M. T. Botticella (INAF-Capodimonte), M. Dennefeld (IAP, UPMC), M. Childress (Southampton), R. Scalzo, F. Yuan, B. Tucker, B. Schmidt (Australian National University)
on 13 Apr 2016; 15:54 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Paul Vreeswijk (paul.vreeswijk@weizmann.ac.il)
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 SkyMapper survey (see Scalzo et al. ATel #5480). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2016 04 12, 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
SMT16atf | 13 29 55.90 | -32 08 26.5 | 20160406 | SkyMapper | 17.91 | 0.014 | SN II | pre max | 1
(1) Discovered by SkyMapper with ID SMT16atf. Blue continuum with Halpha and Hbeta emission lines at redshift 0.014, suggesting a young type II.
