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2020-10-09 21:47:46
Type: Object/s-Discovery/Classification
Spectroscopic classification of optical transient with SOAR
Authors: R. Cartier (CTIO), C. Corco (CTIO) and C. Briceno (CTIO)
Abstract:
We report the spectroscopic classification of 5 supernovae, of which SN 2020ocz and SN 2020ukx are a Type II and a Type Ia, respectively, in the local Universe (9.5 to 17 Mpc). Although these supernovae were classified after maximum brightness we encourage follow-up observations.

The target were supplied by 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), the ESA Gaia Photometric Science Alerts Team and DPAC (http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts), the ATLAS survey, see Smith et al. (2020, PASP, arXiv:2003.09052) and the Zwicky Transient Facility ZTF (Kulkarni 2018, 2018ATel11266....1K). The observations were performed on the night of 2020 October 7 with the 4.1 m SOAR telescope, equipped with the Goodman High Throughput Spectrograph using the 400 lines/mm grating, and a slit width of 1.0 arc second, resulting in a spectral coverage from 380 nm to 775 nm with a resolution of 0.6 nm. Classifications were done with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).

SN 2020ocz is hosted by galaxy UGCA 103 (ESO 422-41) at a distance of 10.8-15 Mpc (NED), and SN 2020ukx is hosted by galaxy NGC 2784 at a distance of 9.5-17 Mpc (NED). Follow up observations of these nearby SNe are strongly encoraged.

We deeply acknowledge the work of AURA staff, and specially of the SOAR team, for making the telescope and the instruments back to science operatins in a safe mode, after several months of inactivity. Congratulations!

Show current TNS values
Catalog Name Reported RA Reported DEC Reported Obj-Type Reported Redshift Host Name Host Redshift Remarks TNS RA TNS DEC TNS Obj-Type TNS Redshift
TNS 2020ocz [Gaia20ddq] 05:10:44.200 -31:35:37.61 SN II 0.0032 05:10:44.200 -31:35:37.61 SN II 0.0032
TNS 2020ufe [ATLAS20bbxl] 05:24:04.528 -23:01:27.12 SN Ia 0.075 05:24:04.525 -23:01:27.13 SN Ia 0.075
TNS 2020uyg [ATLAS20bcme] 06:15:19.132 -29:19:09.76 SN Ia 0.045 06:15:19.120 -29:19:09.34 SN Ia 0.045
TNS 2020uvi [ZTF20acgrwej] 08:30:17.843 -02:00:51.13 SN Ia 0.09 08:30:17.850 -02:00:51.14 SN Ia 0.09
TNS 2020ukx [ASASSN-20mr] 09:12:20.556 -24:10:19.45 0.0023 NGC 2784 0.002305 09:12:20.560 -24:10:19.45 SN Ia 0.0023

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