Discovery of SNF20050625-004, a Type II Supernova
ATel #548; The Nearby Supernova Factory: N. Blanc, S. Bongard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, L. Sauge, G. Smadja (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon), P. Antilogus, G. Garavini, S. Gilles, R. Pain (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris), G. Aldering, S. Bailey, B. C. Lee, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas, L. Wang, B. A. Weaver (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), C. Bonnaud, E. Pecontal (Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon), R. Kessler (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL), C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer (Yale)
on 2 Jul 2005; 02:12 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Brian C. Lee (BCLee@LBL.gov)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
The Nearby Supernova Factory reports the discovery of supernova SNF20050625-004 (coordinates RA 17:37:44.2 DEC +11:09:03.7 J2000.0) in images obtained June 25.4 UT with an approximate magnitude of 19.2 (calibrated to R) using the QUEST II camera on the Palomar Oschin 48-inch telescope as a part of the JPL Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking component of the Palomar Consortium. A spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) of this object, obtained June 28.5 UT with the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope, shows it to be a Type II SN. The spectrum is similar to that of the Type IIP SN 1999em one month after explosion redshifted to z ~ 0.016 (assuming explosion date 1999 October 27 from Hamuy et al. 2001 ApJ 558, 615).
