SN 1986E eight years after outburst: a link to SN 1957D?

Enrico Cappellaro, John I. Danziger, Massimo Turatto

We report on the optical recovery of SN~1986E 7.1 and 7.9 years after explosion. The spectra are dominated by broad H$\alpha$ and [O~I] $\lambda \lambda$6300,6364 emission lines with a minor contrib…