Electronic Telegram No. 920
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVA 2007be IN UGC 7800
     A. V. Filippenko, M. Moore, F. J. D. Serduke, and R. J. Foley,
University of California, Berkeley, report that CCD spectra (range
340-1040 nm), obtained on Apr. 10 UT with the 3-m Shane telescope at
Lick Observatory, show that 2007be (CBET 917) is a type-II supernova
-- probably of the type-II-plateau subclass.  Prominent hydrogen
Balmer, Fe II, and other lines having P-Cyg profiles are visible.
Removing the host-galaxy recession velocity of 3752 km/s (Falco et al.
1999, PASP 111, 438), the minimum of the H-alpha absorption component
is blueshifted by 5600 km/s.


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2007 April 11                    (CBET 920)               Daniel W. E. Green