Type Determination for SN 2005bx
ATel #474; The Nearby Supernova Factory: 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), P. Antilogus, G. Garavini, S. Gilles, R. Pain (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris), G. Aldering, B. C. Lee, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas, L. Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), R. Kessler (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL), C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer (Yale)
on 1 May 2005; 16:06 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Peter Nugent (penugent@lbl.gov)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
Referred to by ATel #: 475
The Nearby Supernova Factory reports that a spectrum (range 340-1000 nm) of SN 2005bx (CBET #148), obtained May 1.5 UT with the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-m
telescope, shows it to be a Type IIn. Assuming the NED velocity for the host of 9359 km/s, H-alpha appears in emission with a fwhm of approximately 3500 km/s.
