Classification certificate for object 2019kau
TNS Classification Report No. 4658 [ 2019TNSCR1355....1G ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-07-29 19:02:39
Sender: Dr. Sebastian Gomez
Group: BTDG

Sebastian Gomez, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Peter Blanchard, Edo Berger (Harvard CfA) report/s a classification of object: SN 2019kau

Type: SN Ia
Redshift: 0.094

Remarks: Supernova classified using template matching with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024), with a best match to SN2003fa.

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2019-07-25 00:00:00
Instrument: IMACS
Telescope: Walter Baade Magellan 6.5-m telescope (LCO)

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