[IAUC] CBET 1145: 20071123 : SUPERNOVA 2007qe

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SUPERNOVA 2007qe
     H. Marion, University of Texas and Texas State University; and P.
Garnavich, University of Notre Dame, report that they obtained near-infrared
spectra (range 0.7-2.5 microns) of 2007qe (cf. CBET 1138) with the NASA
Infrared Telescope Facility (+ SPEX) on Nov. 16 UT.  A preliminary reduction
of the spectrum is consistent with a type-Ia supernova well before optical
maximum.  However, the Ca II triplet feature (at 0.82 microns) shows an
unusually deep high-velocity component at v = 21000 km/s with an uncertainty
of 2500 km/s -- an uncertainty that is large because there is no published
redshift for the faint host galaxy and there is no way of measuring the
galaxy's redshift from these spectra.


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2007 November 23                 (CBET 1145)              Daniel W. E. Green