[IAUC] CBET 1374: 20080514 : SUPERNOVA 2008ch IN MCG -01-52-16

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SUPERNOVA 2008ch IN MCG -01-52-16
     T. Treu, University of California, Santa Barbara; J. M. Silverman and
A. V. Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley, report that inspection
of a CCD spectrum (range 330-1080 nm), obtained on May 14 UT with the Shane
3-m telescope at Lick Observatory, shows that 2008ch (CBET 1372) is a type-II
supernova.  The spectrum exhibits hydrogen Balmer lines having P-Cyg profiles.
Removing the host-galaxy recession velocity of 4000 km/s, calculated from
narrow emission lines, the minimum of the H-alpha absorption is blueshifted
by about 4700 km/s.


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2008 May 14                      (CBET 1374)              Daniel W. E. Green