SALT Spectroscopic classification of nuclear transient Gaia16cac

ATel #9851; A. Hamanowicz (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland), L. Wyrzykowski (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland), David Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory), Patricia Whitelock (South African Astronomical Observatory)
on 12 Dec 2016; 21:51 UT
Credential Certification: Lukasz Wyrzykowski (wyrzykow@astrouw.edu.pl)

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We report the spectroscopic classification of a nuclear transient Gaia16cac discovered by Gaia. The spectrum was obtained using the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) on the South African Large Telescope (SALT). The target were selected from Gaia Photometric Science Alerts webpage (http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts). Spectroscopic classification was done using SNID code (Blondin & Tonry 2007).

Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc. Mag | Obs. Date | z | Type | Epoch |
Gaia16cac | 02:42:25.42 | -39:36:55.01 | 2016-12-02 | 18.32 | 2016-12-09 | 0.054 | SN Ia | +10d |

We acknowledge ESA Gaia, DPAC and the Photometric Science Alerts Team (http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts).