SIMBAD references

R. B. Perry, Langley Research Center, NASA; C. C. Venturini, R. J. Rudy, S. Mazuk, and D. K. Lynch, The Aerospace Corporation; R. C. Puetter, University of California at San Diego; and B. Walp, Lick Observatory, report 0.47- to 2.5-micron spectroscopy of V476 Sct (cf. IAUC 8607, 8612) using the Lick 3.0-m telescope (+ VNIRIS) at Nov. 15.108 UT. The nova is still quite early in its spectral development, showing structured emission in the lines of C I, N I, and Fe II with FWHM of 1600 km/s. He I lines are just emerging and are still very weak. The strongest lines in the visible and infrared spectrum are from O I, and these are produced almost completely by Lyman_beta fluorescence. The strong red continuum strongly suggests thermal emission from dust, despite the fact that the optical light curve is monotonically decreasing with time. The reddening indicated by the O I lines is E(B-V) = 2.0.