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Liverpool Telescope Spectrum of OGLE-2016-NOVA-02

ATel #9250; S. C. Williams (Lancaster), M. J. Darnley (LJMU)
on 16 Jul 2016; 10:47 UT
Credential Certification: Steven Williams (scw@astro.ljmu.ac.uk)

Subjects: Optical, Nova, Transient

We obtained a spectrum of OGLE-2016-NOVA-02 (ATel #9246) with the FRODOSpec spectrograph (Barnsley et al. 2012) on the 2.0m Liverpool Telescope (Steele et al. 2004) on 2016 July 15.97 UT. The spectrum was taken using the higher resolution mode, which gives a wavelength coverage of 5900 to 8000Å and resolution of R = 5300 in the red arm (no significant features were detected in the blue arm, which covers 3900 to 5100Å).

The strongest feature in the spectrum is an O I emission line at 7774Å, which has a FWHM of 1800±100 km/s. The only other line significantly detected is Hα, for which we measure a FWHM of 2100±200 km/s. This spectrum is consistent with OGLE-2016-NOVA-02 being a highly reddened classical nova eruption.