SN 2006U is an AGN
ATel #730; 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, 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), 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 10 Feb 2006; 00:57 UT
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Credential Certification: R. C. Thomas (rcthomas@lbl.gov)
Subjects: Infra-Red, Optical, Ultra-Violet, AGN, Supernovae
The Nearby Supernova Factory reports that a spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) of SN2006U (IAUC # 8667 ), obtained 2006 February 8.4 UT with the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope, shows it to be an AGN at redshift 0.25. The redshift was determined by matching H-alpha and H-beta to the SDSS composite AGN template (Vanden Berk et al., 2001, AJ, 122, 549).
