Spectroscopic Classifications of Optical Transients with SOAR
ATel #9607; C. D. Kilpatrick, Y.-C. Pan, R. J. Foley (UCSC), S. W. Jha (Rutgers), A. Rest (STScI), D. Scolnic (Chicago/KICP)
on 8 Oct 2016; 21:31 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Charles Kilpatrick (charlesk@email.arizona.edu)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae, Transient
We report the following classifications of optical transients from spectroscopic observations with the Goodman spectrograph on the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope. Targets were supplied by PTSS. All observations were made on 2016 Oct 7 UT. Classifications were performed with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | z | Type | Phase | Notes
AT2016gsu | 01:08:24.59 | +21:09:05.75 | 0.076 | Ia | +2d | (1)
Notes:
When the redshift is given to 2 decimal places, it is derived from the SN spectrum. Otherwise, the redshift is determined from the host galaxy.
(1) We measure a Si II 6355 velocity of -9,600 km/s.
