[IAUC] CBET 543: 20060611 : SUPERNOVA 2006cx IN NGC 7316

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 543
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SUPERNOVA 2006cx IN NGC 7316
     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 2006cx (cf. CBET 542),
obtained on June 10.6 UT with the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph
on the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope, reveals that it is a
type-II supernova, showing characteristic hydrogen Balmer P-Cyg
profiles.  The maximum ejection velocity, measured from the blue
absorption wing of H-alpha, is about 12000 km/s.  NGC 7316 has z =
0.0185 (Giovanelli and Haynes, 1993, A.J. 105, 1271; via NED).


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2006 June 11                     (CBET 543)               Daniel W. E. Green