TNS Classification Report No. 16193 [ 2023TNSCR3216....1G ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-12-12 18:07:47
Sender: Sebastian Gomez
Group: FLEET

Sebastian Gomez (STScI), Daichi Hiramatsu (Harvard CfA), Edo Berger (Harvard CfA), Harsh Kumar (Harvard CfA), Peter Blanchard (Northwestern) report/s a classification of object: SN 2023wwx

Type: SLSN-I
Redshift: 0.29

Remarks: 2023wwx was selected as a possible SLSN-I by our FLEET program with a P(SLSN-I) = 0.55 (Gomez et al., 2020, ApJ, 904, 74). The redshift of z = 0.29 was determined from template matching to SLSN-I spectra. At this redshift the peak magnitude is M_r ~ -21.7, well within the SLSN-I range.

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2023-12-05 00:00:00
Instrument: LDSS-3
Telescope: Landon T. Clay Magellan 6.5-m telescope (LCO)

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