[IAUC] CBET 531: 20060601 : SUPERNOVA 2006cr IN UGC 8205

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SUPERNOVA 2006cr IN UGC 8205
     D. C. Leonard, San Diego State University, reports that a CCD spectrum
(range 510-880 nm) of SN 2006cr (cf. CBET 530), obtained on June 1 UT with
the Keck I 10-m telescope (+ LRISp), shows it to be young type-II supernova.
The spectrum is similar to that of SN 1999em about 1 week after explosion
(Leonard et al. 2002, PASP 114, 35), consisting of a blue continuum with a
broad P-Cyg profile from H_alpha in net emission, along with He I 587.6-nm.
Interstellar Na I D absorption at the redshift of UGC 8205 with an equivalent
width of roughly 0.11 nm is detected in the spectrum of SN 2006cr, indicating
gas along the line-of-sight in the host and thus suggesting reddening by dust.


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2006 June 1                      (CBET 531)               Daniel W. E. Green