SIMBAD references

Further to CBET 1026, the "Nearby Supernova Factory" collaboration (P. Antilogus, R. Pain, R. Pereira, and C. Wu, Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris; G. Aldering, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, M. Childress, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, K. Runge, R. C. Thomas, and B. A. Weaver, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; C. Baltay, A. Bauer, D. Rabinowitz, and R. Scalzo, Yale University; G. Rigaudier and E. Pecontal, Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon; C. Buton, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, G. Smadja, and C. Tao, Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon; D. Birchall, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Hilo; and J. Holtzman, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces) reports the discovery of a supernova (at R approximately 20.5) in images obtained on Aug. 7.2 UT using the QUEST-II camera on the Palomar Oschin 1.2-m Schmidt telescope, operated by the Palomar-QUEST consortium. SN 2007gp is located at R.A. = 21h57m35s.59, Decl. = +8o00'47".3 (equinox 2000.0). A noisy spectrogram (range 320-1000 nm), obtained on Aug. 8.5 with the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph on the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope, suggests – from a spectral fit using a library of other supernova spectra – that 2007gp is a type-Ia supernova at a redshift of z approximately 0.24 and that the supernova may be approaching or around maximum brightness.