Electronic Telegram No. 1283
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVA 2008aa IN UGC 7799
     J. M. Silverman and A. V. Filippenko, University of California,
Berkeley; and E. J. Barton, University of California, Irvine, report that
inspection of a CCD spectrum (range 320-940 nm), obtained on Mar. 3 UT with
the Keck I 10-m telescope (+ LRIS), shows that 2008aa (CBET 1244) is a
type-II supernova.  The spectrum shows hydrogen Balmer lines having P-Cyg
profiles.  Removing a host-galaxy recession velocity of 6920 km/s,
calculated from narrow emission lines, the minimum of the H-alpha absorption
is blueshifted by about 5700 km/s.


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2008 March 4                     (CBET 1283)              Daniel W. E. Green