SN 2002dl
T. Puckett and A. Langoussis discovered SN 2002dl (17.7mag) on an unfiltered
CCD frame taken on June 16.35. The host galaxy of SN 2002dl is UGC 11994,
a edge-on spiral galaxy with some Galactic extinction (A_V = 0.25). The
expected maximum for typical SN Ia is mag about 16.0 (vsnet-campaign-sn
440, 442).
On IAUC 7923, the CfA team reported the spectroscopy of SN 2002dl.
It is of SN Ia with some peculiarity. Si II absorption feature was strongly
detected around 580 nm, which suggests that it would be a subluminous
SN Ia. It was about 2 days before maximum on June 18.43 UT (vsnet-campaign-sn
443).