Classification certificate for object 2019gqi
TNS Classification Report No. 4493 [ 2019TNSCR1186....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-07-10 17:42:18
Sender: Dr. Daniel Perley
Group: ZTF

Daniel Perley (LJMU), Lin Yan (Caltech), Ragnhild Lunnan (Stockholm), Avishay Gal-Yam, Steve Schulze, Ofer Yaron (Weizmann) report/s a classification of object: SN 2019gqi

Type: SLSN-I
Redshift: 0.3642

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2019-07-02 08:43:34
Instrument: LRIS
Telescope: Keck I 10m

Remarks: Spectrum shows several broad features which we have not yet successfully matched to any previous transient. However, narrow host-galaxy emission lines are evident at z=0.3642 to fix the redshift and broad hydrogen is clearly absent, so we classify this as a SLSN-I.

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2019gqi