[IAUC] CBET 1568: 20081111 : SUPERNOVA 2008gz IN NGC 3672

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1568
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SUPERNOVA 2008gz IN NGC 3672
     S. Benetti, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico
di Padova; and W. Boschin and H. Harutyunyan, Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
(TNG), report that a spectrum of 2008gz (cf. CBET 1566), obtained on Nov.
11.25 UT with the 3.5-m TNG reflector (+ DOLORES; range 340-800 nm,
resolution 1.0 nm), shows it to be a type-II supernova several weeks after
explosion.  The best fit to this spectrum found by GELATO (Harutyunyan et al.
2008, A.Ap. 488, 383) is with a spectrum of SN 1998A (cf. Pastorello et al.
2005, MNRAS 360, 950) at 62 days after explosion.  Adopting a recession
velocity of 1862 km/s for the host galaxy (RC3; via NED), the expansion
velocity deduced from the H-alpha absorption is about 6600 km/s.


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2008 November 11                 (CBET 1568)              Daniel W. E. Green