Electronic Telegram No. 397
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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NO SUPERNOVA 2006U
     The "Nearby Supernova Factory" collaboration (N. Blanc, Y.
Copin, E. Gangler, and G. Smadja, Institut de Physique
Nucleaire de Lyon; P. Antilogus, S. Gilles, R. Pain, and R.
Pereira, Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies
de Paris; G. Aldering, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, D. Kocevski, B. C.
Lee, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas,
L. Wang, and B. A. Weaver, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley; E. Pecontal and G. Rigaudier, Centre de Recherche
Astronomique de Lyon; R. Kessler, Kavli Institute for Cosmological
Physics, Chicago; and C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, and A. Bauer, Yale
University) reports that a spectrogram (range 320-1000 nm) of
2006U (cf. IAUC 8667), obtained on Feb. 8.4 UT with the
Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii
2.2-m telescope, shows it to be an active galactic nucleus (AGN) at
redshift 0.25.  The redshift was determined by matching H_alpha
and H_beta to the SDSS composite AGN template (Vanden Berk et al.
2001, A.J. 122, 549).


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2006 February 10                 (CBET 397)               Daniel W. E. Green