PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients
ATel #9935; K. W. Smith (QUB), A. Cikota (ESO), M. Magee (QUB), C. Inserra (QUB), T.-W. Chen (MPE), J. Lyman (Univ. of Warwick), E. Kankare (QUB), K. Maguire (QUB), S. J. Smartt (QUB), M. Sullivan (Southampton), S. Valenti (UC Davis), O. Yaron (Weizmann), D. Young (QUB), I. Manulis (Weizmann), J. Tonry (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii), B. Stalder (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii), L. Denneau (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii), A. Heinze (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii), H. Weiland (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii), A. Rest (STScI), L. Wyrzykowski (Warsaw Observatory, Poland)
on 4 Jan 2017; 17:13 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Cosimo Inserra (c.inserra@qub.ac.uk)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Smartt et al. 2015, A&A, 579, 40 http://www.pessto.org ), reports the following supernova classifications. Targets were supplied by the ATLAS survey, see Tonry et al. (2011, PASP, 123, 58) and Tonry et al. (ATel #8680), OGLE-IV Real-time Transient Search (Wyrzykowski et al., 2014 arxiv:1409.1095; http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/ ), and the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae ASAS-SN (see Shappee et al. 2014, ApJ, 788, 48 and http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml ). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2017 01 03, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution). Classifications were done with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024) and GELATO (Harutyunyan et al., 2008, A&A, 488, 383). Classification spectra and additional details can be obtained from http://www.pessto.org (via WISeREP) and the IAU Transient Name Server.
Survey Name | IAU Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Source | Disc Mag | z | Type | Phase | Notes
ATLAS16een | SN2016jel | 10 03 04.12 | -18 58 10.9 | 20161225 | ATLAS | 18.79 | 0.056 | Ia | max | (1)
OGLE17abx | | 04 31 27.86 | -60 45 25.0 | 20161105 | OGLE | 21.59 | 0.064 | II | post-max | (2)
ASASSN-16pq | AT2016jgb | 11 00 03.43 | +14 50 29.3 | 20161231 | ASASSN | 17.00 | - | - | - | (3)
(1) SNID provides good matches to normal SNe Ia around maximum light.
(2) Redshift measured from H-alpha emission. SNID and Gelato provide good matches to type II SNe a few weeks post-maximum.
(3) We confirm the TNS report of 1/1/2017 by K. Stanek that the transient is now not detected. We see no sign of the object in EFOSC2 acquisition images (120s image, reaching V~20)
