Spectroscopic classification of SN 2016esm with the SEDM (Spectral Energy Distribution Machine) on Palomar 60-inch (P60) telescope
ATel #9371; N. Blagorodnova, A. Dugas, J. D. Neill, R. Walters, M. Kasliwal (Caltech)
on 12 Aug 2016; 01:01 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Nadejda Blagorodnova (nblago@ast.cam.ac.uk)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient
The Caltech Time Domain Astronomy group reports the classification of the optical transients SN 2016esm.
The candidate was discovered by Mr. Koichi Itagaki (https://wis-tns.weizmann.ac.il/object/2016esm).
The observations were performed on the night of 2016-08-11 with the Palomar 60-inch (P60) telescope and the Spectral Energy Distribution Machine (SEDM)
(http://www.astro.caltech.edu/sedm/, range 350-950nm, spectral resolution R~100).
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | redshift | Discovery (UT) | Classification (UT) | Discovery mag | Type | Phase
SN 2016esm | 05:55:24.09 | +51:54:45.90 | 0.03 | 2016-08-07 16:51:59 | 2016-08-11 11:17:14 | 17.7 | SN Ia | +20 d
Classifications were performed using SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
