[IAUC] CBET 1313: 20080326 : SUPERNOVA 2008bh IN NGC 2642

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SUPERNOVA 2008bh IN NGC 2642
     A. J. Barth, M. C. Bentz, and C. E. Thornton, University of California,
Irvine; and R. Chornock and A. V. Filippenko, University of California,
Berkeley, report that inspection of CCD spectra (range 330-1050 nm), obtained
on Mar. 26.2 UT with the Shane 3-m telescope at Lick Observatory, reveals that
2008bh (CBET 1311) is a supernova of type II.  Several weak, broad spectral
features are present on top of a relatively featureless continuum including
H-alpha, which appears mostly in emission.  The expansion velocity of the
absorption minimum of H-beta is approximately 11000 km/s.


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2008 March 26                    (CBET 1313)              Daniel W. E. Green