Spectroscopic classification of Gaia16arv as Type Ia supernova with the SEDM
ATel #9230; N. Blagorodnova, D. Neill, R. Walters (Caltech)
on 10 Jul 2016; 09:05 UT
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Credential Certification: Nadejda Blagorodnova (nblago@ast.cam.ac.uk)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
The Caltech Time Domain Astronomy group reports the classification of Gaia16arv, discovered by the Gaia ESA survey. This transient was also reported by MASTER as OT J220727.43-053121.8, with discovery date 2016-06-16.09813 UT (Atel #9161).
The observations were performed with the 60 inches optical telescope at Palomar (P60) and the Spectral Energy Distribution Machine (SEDM)
(http://www.astro.caltech.edu/sedm, range 350-950nm, spectral resolution R~100) on 2016 07 08 10:02:26.7 UT.
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | redshift | Discovery (UT) | Discovery mag | Type | Phase | Notes
Gaia16arv | 22:07:27.5 | -05:31:22.2 | 0.056 | 2016-06-09 09:08:30 | 17.97 | Ia | +28 d | (1)
(1) Best fit template from SNID is SN2006ej.
Classifications were performed using SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
We acknowledge ESA Gaia (http://cosmos.esa.int/gaia), and the DPAC Photometric Science Alerts Team (http://gaia.ac.uk/selected-gaia-science-alerts) (Rixon et al, 2014, ATel #6593).
