TNS Classification Report No. 20085 [ 2025TNSCR.128....1J ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-01-09 04:10:24
Sender: Saurabh Jha
Group: DLT40

Saurabh W. Jha, R. Kuhn, S. Valenti, D. J. Sand, M. Lundquist, J. E. Andrews, E. Hoang, M. Shrestha, Y. Dong, D. Janzen, G. Hosseinzadeh, J. Pearson, N. Meza, K. A. Bostroem, D. Mehta, A. Ravi, A. Martas report/s a classification of object: SN 2025gj

Type: SN Ia
Redshift: 0.0077

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2025-01-08 22:28:28
Instrument: RSS
Telescope: Southern African Large Telescope

Remarks: Type Ia supernova before maximum light. Expansion velocity is 13,700 km/s based on the minimum of the Si II 635.5 nm absorption, adopting a host redshift for NGC 2986 of z = 0.0077 from NED.

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2025gj