2008CBET.1524....2H

E. Y. Hsiao, M. L. Graham, C. J. Pritchet, and D. Balam, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, report that a noisy spectrogram (range 390-703 nm, resolution 0.3 nm) of 2008fz, obtained on Sept. 23.33 UT with the 1.82-m Plaskett Telescope of the National Research Council of Canada, shows it to be a type-Ic supernova at 2 weeks past maximum light. Cross-correlation with a library of supernova spectra using the "Supernova Identification" code (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) indicates that 2008fz is most similar to the type-Ic supernova 1998bw at 16 days past maximum light. There is a faint extended object at the position of the object on the digitized blue plate of the second Palomar Sky Survey.