Observation by Robin Leadbeater: slitless spectrum of SN 2021hiz

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Robin Leadbeater

Observer

Robin Leadbeater

Observed

2021 Apr 05 - 22:24

Uploaded

2021 Apr 06 - 14:44

Objects

IC3322
Spectrum

Equipment

Star Analyser 100 lines/mm diffraction grating
Celestron CII at ~f6
ATK428 camera

Exposure

132 x 20 sec

Location

Wigton Cumbria

Target name

SN 2021hiz in UGC 7513

Title

slitless spectrum of SN 2021hiz

About this image

At ~mag 14 this supernova in UGC7513 had become bright enough and was sufficiently isolated from the galaxy background for a slitless spectrum.

I used a low dispersion (19A/pixel) to give a bright spectrum against the sky background. The camera was rotated so the galaxy was vertical to avoid contamination from the galaxy and other the stars and spectra. This also allowed the galaxy spectrum to be approximately removed using sky background subtraction zones directly above and below the supernova.

A spectrum of nearby mag 5.6 type A2v star HD110423 was used for wavelength and flux calibration (correcting for instrument response and atmospheric extinction)

Although very low resolution (~80Angstrom) the spectrum shows the clear broad absorption lines characteristic of a type Ia supernova, particularly the SiII 6355A line redshifted by the galaxy redshift and blue shifted by the velocity of the explosion to give an estimated velocity of the ejecta of ~12300km/s.

Files associated with this observation

SN 2021hiz_20210405_SA100_SiII_poster.png (231.7 kB)

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