The circumstellar material around SNIIn 1997eg: another detection of a very narrow P Cygni profile

We report the detection of a very narrow P Cygni profile on top of the broad emission Halpha and Hbeta lines of the Type IIn Supernova 1997eg. A similar feature has been detected in SN 1997ab, SN 1998S and SN 1995G. The detection of the narrow P Cygni profile indicates the existence of a dense circumstellar material (CSM), into which the ejecta of the supernova is expanding. From the analysis of the spectra of SN 1997eg we deduce (i) that such CSM is very dense (n greater than or similar to 5 x 10(7) cm(-3)), (ii) that it has a low expanding velocity of about 160 km s(-1). The origin of such dense CSM can be either a very dense progenitor wind ((M)over dot similar to 10(-2) M-circle dot yr(-1)) or a circurnstellar shell product of the progenitor wind expanding into a hi ghpressure environment.