Electronic Telegram No. 427
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2006au IN UGC 11057
     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, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R. Scalzo,
R. C. Thomas, L. Wang, and B. A. Weaver, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory; 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 spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) of SN 2006au
(cf. CBET 426), obtained under bad seeing conditions on Mar. 13.6 UT
with the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope (+ Supernova Integral
Field Spectrograph), shows it to be a type-II supernova at an approximate
redshift of z = 0.01, consistent with that of the host (UGC 11057, z =
0.009580; Theureau et al. 1998, A.Ap. Suppl. 130, 333, via NED).
The spectrum shows a well-developed H-alpha P-Cyg profile.


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2006 March 12                    (CBET 427)               Daniel W. E. Green