Classification certificate for object 2019fiy
TNS Classification Report No. 4500 [ 2019TNSCR1186....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-07-10 18:07:19
Sender: Dr. Daniel Perley
Group: ZTF

Daniel Perley (LJMU), Lin Yan (Caltech), Ragnhild Lunnan (Stockholm), Avishay Gal-Yam, Steve Schulze, Ofer Yaron (Weizmann) report/s a classification of object: SN 2019fiy

Type: SLSN-I
Redshift: 0.67

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2019-07-03 06:28:26
Instrument: DBSP
Telescope: Palomar 5.1m Hale

Remarks: Spectrum shows a good match to PTF09atu redshifted to z=0.67, though it also matches SLSNe-I at slightly lower redshifts. We regard this redshift as tentative.

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2019fiy