Classification certificate for object 2020tcw
TNS Classification Report No. 7647 [ 2020TNSCR3125....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-10-14 13:25:01
Sender: Dr. Daniel Perley
Group: ZTF

Daniel Perley (LJMU), Jesper Sollerman (Stockholm), Christoffer Fremling (Caltech), Aishwarya Dahiwale (Caltech), Richard Walters (Caltech), on behalf of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) report/s a classification of object: SN 2020tcw

Type: SLSN-I
Redshift: 0.0645

Remarks: Spectrum is a good match to Ic and SLSN-I templates. Given the high luminosity (absolute magnitude -20.4) and blue color we classify it as a superluminous SN.

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2020-10-14 00:00:00
Instrument: SEDM
Telescope: Palomar 1.5m

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