TNS Classification Report No. 15515 [ 2023TNSCR2199....1B ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-09-07 22:18:21
Sender: Claudio Balcon
Group: None

Claudio Balcon (Belluno A.O. ISSP) report/s a classification of object: SN 2023raf

Type: SN Ia-91T-like
Redshift: 0.065

Remarks: GELATO (Harutyunyan et al., 2008, A&A, 488, 383) and DASH (Muthukrishna et al., 2019, ApJ, 885, 85) suggest that this spectrum resembles that of type la-91T-like supernova before maximum. The redshift has been deduced from the SN spectral fitting.

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2023-09-07 20:36:07
Instrument: FOSC-E5535
Telescope: Belluno Telescope

Remarks: We obtained the low-resolution spectrum R~100 using the FOSC-ES32 spectrograph attached to a 0.41m Marcon telescope, in the course of Italian Supernovae Search Project.

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2023raf