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IAUC 7434: 2000ck; C/1999 S4
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Circular No. 7434
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SUPERNOVA 2000ck IN IC 4355
S. Benetti, R. Cosentino, J. Licandro, F. Paulli, M. Pedani,
G. Trancho, A. Zacchei, and E. Giro, Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
(TNG); P. Conconi, G. Crimi, and E. Molinari, Osservatorio
Astronomico di Brera; and A. Caproni, M. Comari, C. Corte, S.
Monai, and M. Pucillo, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, report:
"A fully reduced CCD spectrum (range 333.3-722.3 nm, resolution 1
nm), obtained on May 31.03 UT with the TNG reflector (+ D.o.lo.res
spectrograph), tentatively shows SN 2000ck (cf. IAUC 7431) to be a
type-II supernova near maximum light. The spectrum is dominated by
a very blue continuum (T_bb about 17 000 K), upon which we identify
(even if faint) H-delta, H-gamma, and H-beta lines with relatively
narrow P-Cyg profiles (from which we derive an expansion velocity
of about 6200 km/s). There is no sign of a broad H-alpha feature.
From weak interstellar lines due to the Na I D absorption feature
(EW about 0.12 nm) seen at about 605.3 nm, we derive a parent-galaxy
recession velocity of about 8150 km/s."
S. Jha, P. Challis, and R. Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics; and P. Garnavich, University of Notre Dame,
write: "Spectra of SN 2000ck, taken by P. Berlind and Garnavich on
May 27.4, 28.3, 29.2, 30.2, and 31.3 UT with the Whipple
Observatory 1.5-m telescope (+ FAST spectrograph), show it to be an
unusual type-II supernova at an early epoch. The spectra exhibit a
blue continuum with narrow emission lines of [O II], H-gamma,
H-beta, [O III], [O I], [N II], H-alpha, and [S II] from a
superimposed H II region at the recession velocity of IC 4355 (8048
km/s in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database). From the supernova
itself, there are broad but very weak absorption features of H-beta
(expansion velocity 6700 km/s) and He I (rest 587.6 nm, expansion
velocity 5300 km/s) that have developed only very slowly. Strong
interstellar Na I absorption (with equivalent width 0.1 nm) at the
host-galaxy redshift implies significant extinction by dust."
A. V. Filippenko and A. C. Coil, University of California at
Berkeley, communicate: "A CCD spectrum (range 320-1000 nm) of SN
2000ck obtained on May 31 UT with the Shane 3-m reflector at Lick
Observatory exhibits a blue, nearly featureless continuum. It
resembles the spectrum of the peculiar type-II supernova 1993J at
very early times (Filippenko 1997, ARAA 35, 309), but the type-II
classification is not yet certain."
COMET C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)
Visual m_1 estimates by N. Biver, Oahu, HI (0.26-m reflector):
May 25.61 UT, 11.3; 29.61, 11.0.
(C) Copyright 2000 CBAT
2000 June 1 (7434) Daniel W. E. Green
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