SIMBAD references

B. Bassett, South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO); A. Becker, University of Washington (UW); H. Brewington, Apache Point Observatory (APO); D. Cinabro, Wayne State University; F. DeJongh, Fermilab; J. Dembicky, APO; D. L. DePoy, Ohio State University (OSU); B. Dilday, University of Chicago (UC); M. Doi, University of Tokyo; J. Frieman, Fermilab and UC; P. Garnavich, University of Notre Dame; M. Harvanek, APO; C. Hogan, UW; J. Holtzman, New Mexico State University; S. Jha, Stanford University (SU); K. Konishi, University of Tokyo (UT); J. Krzesinski, APO; H. Lampeitl, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI); R. Kessler, UC; B. Ketzeback, D. Long, O. Malanushenko, and V. Malanushenko, APO; J. Marriner, Fermilab; R. McMillan, APO; G. Miknaitis, Fermilab; T. Morokuma, UT; R. Nichol, University of Portsmouth (UP); K. Pan, APO; J. L. Prieto, OSU; M. Richmond, Rochester Institute of Technology; A. Riess, STScI; R. Romani, SU; M. Sako, SU and University of Pennsylvania; D. Schneider, Pennsylvania State University; M. Smith, UP; S. Snedden, APO; N. Takanashi and K. Tokita, UT; K. van der Heyden, SAAO; S. Watters, APO; N. Yasuda, UT; and C. Zheng, SU, on behalf of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II collaboration, report the discovery of two apparent supernovae on g, r, and i images taken on the night of Aug. 26 with the SDSS 2.5-m telescope at Apache Point Observatory by the SDSS observing team. The objects are offset from putative host galaxies and are not visible in template images taken in previous years; these template images are co-added images from a number of previous SDSS images taken under photometric conditions with good seeing (limiting g magnitude approximately 21.5 or fainter). M. Hicken and R. Kirshner report that follow-up SDSS r- and i-band images taken by M. Calkins using the F. L. Whipple Observatory 1.2-m telescope on the night of Aug. 29 confirm the presence of both objects. SN 2006eq, at R.A. = 21h28m37s.13, Decl. = +1o13'41".2 (equinox 2000.0) had an approximate g-band discovery magnitude of 18.7; the nearby host galaxy (with position end figures 37s.60, 48".6) has a prior SDSS spectrum indicating a redshift of 0.0495. SN 2006er, at R.A. = 0h21m37s.54, Decl. = -1o00'35".9, had an approximate discovery g magnitude of 19.5; the nearby host galaxy (with position end figures 37s.89, 38".2) has a prior SDSS spectrum indicating a redshift of 0.0843. The colors and magnitudes of both objects are consistent with those of type-Ia supernovae near peak light at the time of discovery.