TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21467 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo G296853: Liverpool Telescope classification of MASTER OT J013646.48-140323.5 DATE: 17/08/12 19:54:24 GMT FROM: Chris Copperwheat at LJMU ArI C.M.Copperwheat (LJMU), I.A.Steele (LJMU) reports on behalf of D.Bersier (LJMU), M.Bode (LJMU), C.Collins (LJMU), M.Darnley (LJMU), D.Galloway (Monash), A.Gomboc (Nova Gorica), S.Kobayashi (LJMU), A. Levan (Warwick), P.Mazzali (LJMU), C.Mundell (Bath), E.Pian (Pisa), D. Pollacco (Warwick), D. Steeghs (Warwick), N.Tanvir (Leicester), K. Ulaczyk (Warwick), K.Wiersema (Leicester) and the GROWTH (Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen) collaboration. --- We observed MASTER OT J013646.48-140323.5, originally reported in GCN #21445, on 2017-08-12 at 03:25UT using the SPRAT spectrograph on the Liverpool Telescope. The spectra we obtain are fairly poor quality due to the proximity of the moon. Using SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024) we tentatively classify this transient as a SN Ia or Ib at around 7 days before peak, with a redshift consistent with the distance of the nearby galaxy (170Mpc, as reported in GCN #21445). -- ------------------------------------------------------ C.M.Copperwheat Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University ------------------------------------------------------ http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------ Email: c.m.copperwheat@ljmu.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)151 231 2914 Fax: +44 (0)151 231 2921 ------------------------------------------------------ ________________________________ Important Notice: the information in this email and any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient, you should delete it from your system immediately without disclosing its contents elsewhere and advise the sender by returning the email or by telephoning a number contained in the body of the email. No responsibility is accepted for loss or damage arising from viruses or changes made to this message after it was sent. The views contained in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Liverpool John Moores University.