Electronic Telegram No. 358
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVA 2005my IN ESO 302-G27
     M. Salvo and B. Schmidt, Australian National University (ANU); and S.
Ryder, Anglo-Australian Observatory, report that a spectrogram (range 370-900
nm), obtained with the ANU 2.3-m telescope (+ Double-Beam Spectrograph) on
Jan. 7.53 UT, shows SN 2005my (IAUC 8655) to be a type-II supernova in the
late plateau phase; adopting the NED recession velocity for the host galaxy
(Mathewson and Ford 1996, Ap.J. Suppl. 107, 97) of cz = 4441 km/s, the
expansion velocity measured from the Fe II 492.4- and 501.8-nm lines is 2000
km/s.


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2006 January 8                   (CBET 358)               Daniel W. E. Green