Classification certificate for object 2020hvw
TNS Classification Report No. 7713 [ 2020TNSCR3149....1G ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-10-16 20:51:00
Sender: Dr. Sebastian Gomez
Group: FLEET

Sebastian Gomez, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Edo Berger (Harvard CfA) Peter Blanchard (Northwestern) report/s a classification of object: SN 2020hvw

Type: SN II
Redshift: 0.093

Remarks: AT2020hvw was selected as a superluminous supernova candidate using FLEET (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200901853G) with a probability P(SLSN) = 0.70 and classified using template matching with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2020-09-17 00:00:00
Instrument: BINOSPEC
Telescope: MMT Observatory 6.5m

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020hvw