HII Region Metallicity Constraints Near the Site of the Strongly Lensed
  Supernova "SN Refsdal" at Redshift 1.49
  We present the local HII region metallicity near the site of the recently
discovered multiply lensed supernova (SN; "SN Refsdal") at redshift 1.49. "SN
Refsdal" is located at the outer spiral arm ($\sim$7 kpc) of the lensed host
galaxy, which we have previously reported to exhibit a steep negative
galactocentric metallicity gradient. Based on our updated near-infrared
integral field spectroscopic data, the gas-phase metallicity averaged in an
intrinsic radius of $\sim$ 550 pc surrounding an HII region $\sim$ 200 pc away
from the SN site is 12 + log(O/H)$_{\rm PP04N2}$ $\le$ 8.67. The metallicity
averaged over nine HII regions at similar galactocentric distances ($\sim$5-7
kpc) as "SN Refsdal" is constrained to be 12 + log(O/H)$_{\rm PP04N2}$ $\le$
8.11. Given the fortuitous discovery of "SN Refsdal" in an advantageously
lensed face-on spiral, this is the first observational constraint on the local
metallicity environment of an SN site at redshift $z>1$.
