Electronic Telegram No. 371
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVA 2006H
     The "Nearby Supernova Factory" collaboration (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; N. Blanc, Y. Copin,
E. Gangler, L. Sauge, 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; 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 2006H (IAUC 8660), obtained on Jan.
20.3 UT under poor seeing conditions with the Supernova Integral Field
Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope, shows it to
be a type-Ia supernova.  Its spectrum is similar to the peculiar,
subluminous SN 1991bg (Filippenko et al. 1992, A.J. 104, 1543) at two
days past maximum light.  An approximate redshift of z about 0.01 is
obtained from a fit to the supernova features.


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2006 January 20                  (CBET 371)               Daniel W. E. Green