Classification certificate for object 2019kcy
TNS Classification Report No. 4501 [ 2019TNSCR1186....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-07-10 18:09:22
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 2019kcy

Type: SLSN-I
Redshift: 0.4

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2019-07-03 06:14:40
Instrument: DBSP
Telescope: Palomar 5.1m Hale

Remarks: Spectrum shows an excellent match to PTF09cnd 16 days before peak, redshifted to z=0.40.

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