[IAUC] CBET 1321: 20080401 : SUPERNOVA 2008be IN NGC 5671

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1321
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SUPERNOVA 2008be IN NGC 5671
    M. A. Malkan, University of California, Los Angeles; M. C. Bentz and C. E.
Thornton, University of California, Irvine; and J. M. Silverman, T. N. Steele,
and A. V. Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley, report that
inspection of a CCD spectrum (range 330-1050 nm), obtained on Mar. 31 UT with
the Shane 3-m reflector (+ Kast spectrograph) at Lick Observatory, shows that
2008be (CBET 1303) is a type-IIn supernova.  The spectrum consists of a nearly
featureless continuum with superimposed strong, relatively narrow, hydrogen
Balmer emission lines (average FWHM about 300 km/s).


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2008 April 1                     (CBET 1321)              Daniel W. E. Green