[IAUC] CBET 1599: 20081203 : SUPERNOVA 2008hs IN NGC 910

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SUPERNOVA 2008hs IN NGC 910
     P. Challis, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), on behalf
of the CfA Supernova Group, reports that a spectrum (range 350-740 nm) of
2008hs (cf. CBET 1598), obtained on Dec. 1 UT by J. Hora with the F. L.
Whipple Observatory 1.5-m telescope (+ FAST), shows it to be a type-Ia
supernova near maximum light.  The spectrum has spectral features consistent
with those of SN 1991bg (Filippenko et al. 1992, A.J. 104, 1543), such as a
deep Si II 580.0-nm feature, though (over the spectral range) the spectrum
is also consistent with those of "normal" type-Ia supernovae.  The spectral
shape and lack of narrow Na D absorption suggest that the supernova is not
highly reddened; 2008hs is probably an underluminous type-Ia supernova or
it is younger than its spectrum suggests.


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2008 December 3                  (CBET 1599)              Daniel W. E. Green