SIMBAD references

T. Matheson, P. Challis, and R. Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, report that spectrograms of SN 2003gk (cf. IAUC 8162), obtained by Challis and M. Hicken on July 3.39 UT with the MMT 6.5-m telescope (+ Blue Channel Spectrograph; range 320-800 nm) and by M. Calkins on July 3.46 with the F. L. Whipple Observatory 1.5-m telescope (+ FAST spectrograph; range 370-750 nm), show it to be a type-Ib supernova a few weeks past maximum, similar to SN 1999di (see Matheson et al. 2001, A.J. 121, 1648).