[IAUC] CBET 1649: 20090104 : SUPERNOVA 2008ip IN NGC 4846

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1649
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SUPERNOVA 2008ip IN NGC 4846
     P. Challis, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), on
behalf of the CfA Supernova Group, reports that a spectrum (range 320-850 nm)
of 2008ip (cf. CBET 1641), obtained on Jan. 2 UT by M. Calkins with the F. L.
Whipple Observatory 1.5-m telescope (+ FAST), shows it to be a type-IIn
supernova; cross-correlation with a library of supernova spectra, using
the "Supernova Identification" code (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024),
indicates that 2008ip is simliar to SN 1998S at 2 days after explosion.


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2009 January 4                   (CBET 1649)              Daniel W. E. Green