Classification of SN 2006au, a Type II Supernova
ATel #762; The Nearby Supernova Factory: N. Blanc, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, G. Smadja (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon), P. Antilogus, S. Gilles, R. Pain, R. Pereira (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris), G. Aldering, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, D. Kocevski, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas, L. Wang, B. A. Weaver (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), E. Pecontal, G. Rigaudier (Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon), R. Kessler (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL), C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer (Yale)
on 12 Mar 2006; 19:07 UT
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Credential Certification: R. C. Thomas (rcthomas@lbl.gov)
Subjects: Infra-Red, Optical, Ultra-Violet, Supernovae
The Nearby Supernova Factory reports that a spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) of SN 2006au (CBET #426) obtained under bad seeing conditions on March 13.6 UT with the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope, shows it to be a Type II supernova at an approximate redshift of z = 0.01, consistent with that of the host (UGC 11057, z = 0.009580, Theureau et al. 1998, A&AS, 130, 333 via NED). Our spectrum shows a well-developed H-alpha P Cygni profile.
