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2026-06-04 15:30:45
Type: Object/s-Discovery/Classification
ePESSTO+ spectroscopic classification of optical transients
Authors: M. Ghendrih (Lancaster), E. Charleton (Southampton), C.G. Touchard-Paxton (Trinity), P. Wiseman, P. Clark, M. Quilt, N. Shiamtanis (Southampton), C. Gutiérrez (ICE-CSIC), S. Srivastav (Oxford), Michel Dennefeld (Sorbonne), J. Anderson (ESO), T.-W. Chen (NCU), M. Gromadzki (Warsaw), C. Inserra (Cardiff), E. Kankare (Turku), T. Müller Bravo (Trinity), P. Pessi (Warsaw), O. Yaron (Weizmann), D. Young (QUB), E. Zimmerman (Weizmann), J. Tonry, L. Denneau, H. Weiland, R. Siverd (IfA, University of Hawaii), N. Erasmus, W. Koorts (South African Astronomical Observatory), A. Jordan, V. Suc (UAI, Obstech), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Oxford/QUB), H. Stevance (Oxford), D. R. Young, M. Fulton, M. McCollum, T. Moore, M. Nicholl, J. Weston (QUB), L. Shingles (GSI/QUB), L. Rhodes (Oxford), J. Sommer (LMU/QUB), A. Rest (STScI), T.-W. Chen (NCU), C. Stubbs (Harvard)
Source Group: ePESSTO+
Keywords: Spectroscopy, Transient, Supernova, Optical
Abstract:
This report includes classifications of 1 Type Ia and 1 Type II.

ePESSTO+, the advanced Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (Smartt et al. 2015 2015A&A...579A..40S), reports the following supernova classifications.

Targets were supplied by the ATLAS survey (Smith et al. 2020 2020PASP..132h5002S) and the Zwicky Transient Facility ZTF (Bellm et al. 2019 2019PASP..131a8002B) - data stream processed through the Lasair broker (Williams et al. 2024 2024RASTI...3..362W) and by the ALeRCE broker (Forster et al. 2020 2021AJ....161..242F).

Observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla on the night of 2026 June 03, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution). Classifications were done using SNID-SAGE (Stoppa F., Smartt S.~J., 2026, arXiv, arXiv:2603.28741. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2603.28741).

The classification spectra and additional details can be obtained from http://www.pessto.org (via WISeREP) and the IAU Transient Name Server.

The classified objects are listed in the Related Objects table below.

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Catalog Name Reported RA Reported DEC Reported Obj-Type Reported Redshift Host Name Host Redshift Source Phase (days) Remarks TNS RA TNS DEC TNS Obj-Type TNS Redshift
TNS 2026nml [ATLAS26ghq] 18:27:35.636 +18:48:26.06 SN II 0.016 ATLAS Post-Peak Redshift and phase from SNID-SAGE and ATLAS light curve. Confirmation of previous YNTS classification. 18:27:35.636 +18:48:26.06 SN II 0.016
TNS 2026nxa [ZTF26aayxacs] 11:10:58.819 -10:02:40.92 SN Ia 0.03 WISEA J111058.77-100247.4 ZTF Post-peak Redshift and phase from SNID-SAGE. 11:10:58.819 -10:02:40.92 SN Ia 0.03
TNS 2026nyn [ZTF26aazdlqy] 15:32:53.230 -04:57:03.59 NA/Unknown No discernible signal in spectrum. 15:32:53.230 -04:57:03.59

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