Observation by Kevin Gurney: Supernova spectrum

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Kevin Gurney

Observer

Kevin Gurney

Observed

2021 Apr 15 - 00:30

Uploaded

2021 Apr 15 - 15:55

Objects

Spectrum

Equipment

Celestron C11
Alpy600
Atik 460EX
Focal reducer 0.63x

Exposure

18 x 300s

Location

Sheffield

Target name

SN 2021hiz

Title

Supernova spectrum

About this image

I saw the alert for this on the CV email list. It seemd just within my grasp at around V13, and it was a clear night...

It is a Type Ia which is well documented spectroscopically in Richard Walker's Spectroscopy Atlas. It was gratifying to see that I could identify features such as the 'silcon valley', blueshifted from around 6360 due to the expanding wavefront (towards us, as we see it). This is indicative of a velocity of around 9500km/s! There is also the 'W-absorption' of SII at around 5400. I estimated the V-magnitude (using an 80mm refractor) at 12.97.

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Ron Arbour, Mike Harlow, Graham Winstanley, Robin Leadbeater, Hugh Allen

Comments

Robin Leadbeater, 2021 Apr 19 - 12:47 UTC

Hi Kevin,

Don't forget to include the redshift of the host galaxy when estimating the expansion velocity. In this case the redshift is 0.0033 so the Si II rest wavelength of 6360 is shifted to 6381 making the measured velocity ~1000km/s higher

Cheers

Robin

Kevin Gurney, 2021 Apr 20 - 17:42 UTC

Hi Robin,

Good point!

Cheers

kevin

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