2009CBET.1968....1S

J. M. Silverman, M. T. Kandrashoff, and A. V. Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley, report that inspection of CCD spectra (range 340-1000 nm), obtained on Oct. 12 UT with the 3-m Shane reflector (+ Kast) at Lick Observatory, shows that 2009jq (CBET 1963) is a type-II supernova; cross- correlation with a library of supernova spectra using the "SuperNova IDentification" code (SNID; Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) indicates that it is spectroscopically similar to the peculiar type-II supernova 2006tf at 32 days after discovery (Smith et al. 2008, Ap.J. 686, 467), though SN 2006tf was far more luminous. SN 2009jr (CBET 1964) is a type-Ia supernova; cross-correlation with SNID indicates that it is roughly one week before maximum brightness; after removal of the host-galaxy recession velocity of 5100 km/s (from narrow emission features), the absorption minimum of the Si II 635.5-nm line is found to be blueshifted by about 13000 km/s.