TNS Classification Report No. 9676 [ 2021TNSCR1675....1G ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-05-17 19:29:30
Sender: Sebastian Gomez
Group: FLEET

Sebastian Gomez, Edo Berger (Harvard CfA) Peter Blanchard (Northwestern) Matt Nicholl (Birmingham) report/s a classification of object: SN 2021ejo

Type: SLSN-I
Redshift: 0.44

Remarks: 2021hpc was selected as part of our FLEET effort to find superluminous supernovae with a P(SLSN-I) = 0.53 (Gomez et al., 2020, ApJ, 904, 74) and classified using template matching with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024). The redshift of z = 0.44 was determined from the supernova features.

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2021-05-16 00:00:00
Instrument: BINOSPEC
Telescope: MMT Observatory 6.5m

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://sandbox.wis-tns.org/object/2021ejo