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IAUC 8083: 2002kl; 2003V, 2003ah, 2003av, 2003ax, 2003bf; C/2002 Y1; YY Her

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                                                  Circular No. 8083
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SUPERNOVA 2002kl
     Further to IAUC 8081, T. Dahlen reports the discovery of
another apparent supernova on ACS images of the Hubble Deep Field
North, located at R.A. = 12h37m49s.30, Decl. = +62o14'06".1, which
is 0".15 east and 0".45 south of the center of the nearest visible
galaxy.  Available z-band magnitudes for SN 2002kl:  2002 Nov.
21.76, 24.8; 2003 Jan. 2.91 UT, 25.0; Feb. 21.95, [28.


SUPERNOVAE 2003V, 2003ah, 2003av, 2003ax, 2003bf
     A. V. Filippenko and R. Chornock, University of California,
Berkeley, report that inspection of CCD spectra (range 310-1000 nm)
obtained on Feb. 27 UT with the Keck I 10-m telescope (+ LRIS)
shows that SN 2003V (IAUC 8060) is of type Ia, about 2 months past
maximum brightness. SN 2003av (IAUC 8077) and SN 2003ax (IAUC 8079)
are also of type Ia, about 2 weeks past maximum.  Yet another
type-Ia supernova is SN 2003ah (IAUC 8068), about 12 days past
maximum.  SN 2003bf (cf. IAUC 8082) is of type Ia, very close to
maximum brightness.


COMET C/2002 Y1 (JUELS-HOLVORCEM)
     D. K. Lynch, R. W. Russell, and D. L. Kim, The Aerospace
Corporation; M. L. Sitko, University of Cincinnati; and R. B. Perry,
Langley Research Center, NASA, report that 3-14-micron spectroscopy
of comet C/2002 Y1, obtained on Feb. 20.6 UT with the NASA Infrared
Telescope Facility 3-m telescope (+ Aerospace Broadband Array
Spectrograph System), yielded a narrowband magnitude of N [10.2
microns] = 3.5 +/- 0.1.  The spectrum shows a smooth featureless
continuum with an 8-13-micron color temperature of about 280 +/- 20
K, roughly 12 times higher than the radiative equilibrium blackbody
temperature.  The comet was not detected between 3 and 8 microns,
and an upper limit to the silicate emission feature was
approximately 10 percent of the 8-13-micron continuum.


YY HERCULIS
     E. O. Waagen, AAVSO, reports that this variable is in outburst
for the first time since May 1993 (cf. IAUC 5805; it peaked at m_v
= 11.3 in July 1993, slowly faded over a year to m_v = 13.6,
rebrightened to m_v = 12.3 in early 1995, and then declined to its
normal minimum near mag 13 by Sept. 1995).  Recent CCD V magnitudes
from R. James, Las Cruces, NM:  Feb. 2.518 UT, 12.9; 9.513, 12.8;
17.496, 12.1; 23.503, 11.9; 27.472, 11.9.

                      (C) Copyright 2003 CBAT
2003 February 27               (8083)            Daniel W. E. Green

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