Classification of SN 2005kd
ATel #656; The Nearby Supernova Factory: P. Antilogus, S. Gilles, R. Pain, R. Pereira (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris), N. Blanc, S. Bongard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, L. Sauge, G. Smadja (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon), G. Aldering, S. Bailey, D. Kocevski, 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 16 Nov 2005; 04:03 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Peter Nugent (penugent@lbl.gov)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
The Nearby Supernova Factory reports that a spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) of SN2005kd (CBET #285), obtained November 15.6 UT with the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope, shows it to be a Type IIn supernova at an early age. H Balmer emission lines up to H-epsilon are present along with He I 587.6 nm at z=0.015, in agreement with the host redshift (CGCG 327-013; de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, Third Ref. Cat. of Bright Galaxies, ver. 3.9). The FWHM of H-alpha is approximately 550 km/s.
