TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 18806 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo G211117: PESSTO classification of Pan-STARRS transients DATE: 16/01/02 18:47:44 GMT FROM: S. J. Smartt at Queens U Belfast C. Frohmaier, G. Dimitriadis, R. Firth,(Southampton), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, D. Young, D. Wright, (QUB), E. Cappellaro (INAF, Padova) K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, University of Hawaii), M. Coughlin (Harvard), L. Denneau, H. Flewelling, A. Heinze, R. Kotak (QUB), E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Rest (STScI), A. Sherstyuk (IfA), B. Stalder (IfA), C. W. Stubbs (Harvard), J. Tonry, C. Waters (IfA) J. Anderson (ESO), K. Maguire (QUB), I. Manulis (Weizmann), C. Inserra (QUB), E. Kankare (QUB), M. Sullivan (Southampton), S. Valenti (UC Davis), O. Yaron (Weizmann), Further to the Pan-STARRS discovery of 44 transients in the northern localisation region of G211117 (Smith et al. GCN 18786), PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Smartt et al. 2015, A&A, 579, 40 http://www.pessto.org) reports the following supernova classifications. All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2015 December 31, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 1 8A resolution). Classifications were done with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024) and GELATO (Harutyunyan et al., 2008, A&A, 488, 383). Classification spectra can be obtained from http://www.pessto.org (via WISeREP). Name RA (J2000) Dec (J2000) Disc. Date Disc Mag z Type Phase PS15dox 02:40:15.04 +22:32:12.1 2015-12-28 19.23 0.080 Ia +10 PS15dpa 02:57:56.02 +28:53:37.1 2015-12-28 19.51 0.079 Ia +9 PS15dpq 03:09:12.75 +27:31:16.9 2015-12-28 18.84 0.038 Ia +40 (91T-like)