Classification certificate for object 2018hv
TNS Classification Report No. 1652 [ 2018TNSCR..81....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2018-01-17 16:37:52
Sender: Jose Prieto
Group: ASAS-SN

E. Falco, M. Calkins (Harvard CfA), J. L. Prieto (UDP/MAS), K. Z. Stanek (OSU) report/s a classification of object: SN 2018hv

Type: SN Ia

Remarks: We report optical spectroscopic observations of the ASASSN-18ar/AT2018hv obtained on UT 2018 Jan 16.14 with FAST (range 3600-7450 Angstroms) mounted on the F. L. Whipple Observatory 1.5-m telescope. We used SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024) to aid with the type, phase and redshift determination. ASASSN-18ao is a Type Ia SN around peak with strong host galaxy contamination.

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2018-01-16 03:41:03
Instrument: FAST
Telescope: FLWO 1.5m Tillinghast

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018hv