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EARLY SPECTROSCOPIC IDENTIFICATION OF SN 2008D

EARLY SPECTROSCOPIC IDENTIFICATION OF SN 2008D

SN 2008D was discovered while following up an unusually bright X-ray transient (XT) in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2770.We present early optical spectra (obtained 1.75 days after the XT) which allowed the first identification of the object as a supernova (SN) at redshift z = 0.007.These spectra were acquired …