SIMBAD references

M. Stritzinger, Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), on behalf of the Carnegie Supernova Project, reports that a spectrum (range 380-920 nm) of 2008il, obtained on Dec. 28.1 UT with the du Pont telecope (+ WFCCD) at LCO, shows it to be a young type-II supernova. Adopting a host-galaxy recession velocity of 6236 km/s (Paturel et al. 2003, A.Ap. 412, 57) for the host galaxy, H_alpha and H_beta are measured to be blue-shifted by roughly 15000 and 12000 km/s, respectively. With use of the "SuperNova IDentification" program (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024), he finds 2008il to be very similar to SN 1999em and SN 2004et around a week past explosion.