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IAUC 8564: X-RAY FLASH IN M51; 2005ct; P/2005 N3

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                                                  Circular No. 8564
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X-RAY FLASH IN M51
     S. Immler, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, and USRA; and A.
Kong and W. H. G. Lewin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on
behalf of a larger collaboration, report the detection of an x-ray
flash in a 2136-s SWIFT XRT observation of M51 from July 6.231 UT
(sequence 00030083011):  "The significance of the detection is 6
sigma.  Given an offset of the source from the tentative
identification of the SN 2005cs progenitor (Richmond, IAUC 8555) of
8", and an XRT point-spread function of 18" (half-power diameter at
1.5 keV), this new source is probably unrelated to the supernova;
however, based on the position alone, we cannot exclude the
possibility that the emission is from SN 2005cs.  The (background-
subtracted) count rate of the source is (7.4 +/- 1.5) x 10**-3
count/s, which corresponds to an unabsorbed 0.3-10-keV-band flux
(averaged over the observation) of (3.3 +/- 0.7) x 10**-14 erg
cm**-2 s**-1 and an average luminosity of (2.8 +/- 0.6) x 10**39
ergs/s, assuming a 10-keV thermal bremsstrahlung spectrum, an
absorbing column density of 1.57 x 10**20 cm**-2 (Dickey and
Lockman 1990, ARAA 28, 215), and a distance of 8.4 Mpc (Feldmeier
et al. 1997, Ap.J. 479, 231).  No x-ray source was detected 96 min
later (sequence 00030083012, exposure 2031 s), as well as in all
other SWIFT XRT observations of M51 on June 30, July 3, 5, 6, and
7, and in a previous 4800-s Chandra observation on 2003 Aug. 7.
We encourage observations at other wavelengths."


SUPERNOVA 2005ct IN NGC 207
     A. V. Filippenko, F. J. D. Serduke, and S. Park, University of
California, Berkeley; and D. C. Leonard, California Institute of
Technology, report that inspection of CCD spectra (range 330-1000
nm), obtained on July 10 UT with the Shane 3-m telescope at Lick
Observatory, shows that SN 2005ct (IAUC 8557) is a supernova,
probably of type Ic (although type Ib cannot be ruled out at this
time).


COMET P/2005 N3 (LARSON)
     As suspected on IAUC 8560, this comet is indeed of short
period (P = 6.7 yr); additional astrometry, elliptical orbital
elements (T = 2005 Dec. 8.6 TT, e = 0.383, q = 2.199 AU, Peri. =
57.9 deg, Node = 298.5 deg, i = 6.3 deg, equinox 2000.0), and an
ephemeris appear on MPEC 2005-N46.

                      (C) Copyright 2005 CBAT
2005 July 11                   (8564)            Daniel W. E. Green

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