Discovery of SNF20060529-001, a Type IIn Supernova
ATel #825; The Nearby Supernova Factory: P. Antilogus, S. Gilles, R. Pain, R. Pereira (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris), N. Blanc, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, G. Smadja (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon), G. Aldering, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, D. Kocevski, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, K. Runge, 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, A. Bauer, D. Herrera, D. Rabinowitz (Yale)
on 4 Jun 2006; 20:26 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: R. C. Thomas (rcthomas@lbl.gov)
Subjects: Infra-Red, Optical, Ultra-Violet, Supernovae
The Nearby Supernova Factory reports the discovery of supernova SNF20060529-001 (coordinates RA 14:47:43.31 DEC +09:39:33.9 J2000.0) in UGC 9530 (z = 0.028620, De Vaucouleurs et al. 1991 RC3.9) in images obtained May 29.4 UT at an approximate magnitude of 18.1 (calibrated to R) using the QUEST II camera in drift-scan mode on the Palomar Oschin 48-inch telescope as a part of the JPL Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking component of the Palomar-QUEST Consortium. A spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) of this object, obtained June 3.4 UT with the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope, reveals that it is a Type IIn supernova, exhibiting the typical narrow Balmer emission lines.
