Type determination for SN 2005ak
ATel #427; The Nearby Supernova Factory: G. Aldering, B. C. Lee, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas, L. Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), C. Bonnaud, E. Pecontal (Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon), N. Blanc, S. Bongard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, L. Sauge, G. Smadja (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon), R. Kessler (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL), P. Antilogus, G. Garavini, S. Gilles, R. Pain (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris), C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer (Yale)
on 25 Feb 2005; 19:17 UT
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Credential Certification: Brian C. Lee (BCLee@LBL.gov)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
The Nearby Supernova Factory reports that a spectrum (range 340-1000
nm) of SN 2005ak (CBET #110), obtained Feb 25.66 UT with the SuperNova
Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2m
telescope, shows it to be a type Ia SN just before maximum light.
Assuming a host redshift of z =0.027 from NED and SDSS, the Si II
635.5 nm minimum absorption is at approximately 10,000 km/s.
Nearby Supernova Factory
