[IAUC] CBET 575: 20060713 : SUPERNOVA 2006dp IN MCG -01-3-56

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SUPERNOVA 2006dp IN MCG -01-3-56
     The "Nearby Supernova Factory" collaboration (P. Antilogus, S. Gilles,
R. Pain, and R. Pereira, Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute
Energies de Paris; N. Blanc, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, and G. Smadja, Institut
de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon; G. Aldering, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, S.
Bongard, M. J. Childress, D. Kocevski, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter,
K. Runge, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas, L. Wang, and B. A. Weaver, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley; E. Pecontal and G. Rigaudier,
Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon; R. Kessler, Kavli Institute for
Cosmological Physics, Chicago; and C. Baltay, A. Bauer, D. Herrera, and D.
Rabinowitz, Yale University) reports that a spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) of
SN 2006dp (cf. CBET 574), obtained on July 13.6 UT with the Supernova
Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope,
reveals that it is a type-II supernova.  P-Cyg features from hydrogen
Balmer lines, He I 587.6-nm, and the Ca II infrared triplet are visible.
The maximum ejection velocity, measured from the blue wings of the H-alpha
and He I 587.6-nm absorption features, is approximately 10000 km/s.


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2006 July 13                     (CBET 575)               Daniel W. E. Green