Electronic Telegram No. 1444
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVA 2008eg IN UGC 1324
     Further to CBET 1440, W. Li and A. V. Filippenko, University of
California at Berkeley, report the LOSS discovery of an apparent supernova
on unfiltered KAIT images:

 SN       2008 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2008eg   July 20.48   1 51 36.27  +19 06 16.9   16.2    0".3 W, 5".6 N

Nothing was visible at this location on a KAIT image taken on Jan. 20.15 UT
(limiting mag 19.0).
     A. Harutyunyan, S. Benetti, and F. Sabbadin, Istituto Nazionale di
Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, report that a spectrum of
2008eg, obtained on July 21.19 UT with the 3.5-m TNG reflector (+ DOLORES;
range 340-775 nm, resolution 1.1 nm), shows it to be a type-Ia supernova
around maximum light.  The best fit to this spectrum found by GELATO
(Harutyunyan et al. 2008, http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0804.1939) is with a
spectrum of SN 1996X (cf. Salvo et al. 2001, MNRAS 321, 254) at two days
before maximum light.  Adopting a recession velocity of 10090 km/s for the
host galaxy (Giovanelli and Haynes 1993, A.J. 105, 1271; via NED), the
expansion velocity deduced from the Si II 635.5-nm absorption is about 10700
km/s.


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2008 July 21                     (CBET 1444)              Daniel W. E. Green