[IAUC] CBET 3027: 20120220 : SUPERNOVA 2012ag IN PGC 48454 = PSN J13412766-3200010
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Electronic Telegram No. 3027
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2012ag IN PGC 48454 = PSN J13412766-3200010
R. H. McNaught, Australian National University; A. J. Drake, M. J.
Graham, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, and R. Williams, California Institute of
Technology; J. L. Prieto, Princeton University; M. Catelan, Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Chile; E. C. Beshore and S. M. Larson, Lunar and
Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and E. Christensen, Gemini
Observatory, report the discovery of an apparent supernova in unfiltered
Siding Spring Survey (SSS) images:
SN 2012 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset
2012ag Feb. 16.74 13 41 27.66 -32 00 01.0 16.6 8".1 E, 8".1 N
The variable was designated PSN J13412766-3200010 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2012ag based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Further magnitudes for 2012ag:
2011 Aug. 26.42 UT, [19.0 (SSS); 2012 Feb. 17.600, 16.2 (Joseph Brimacombe,
Cairns, Australia; 41-cm RCOS telescope + STL6K camera + infrared filter;
wavelength range > 700 nm; position end figures 27s.67, 01".0; image posted at
website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6893811615/).
G. H. Marion, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), on
behalf of the CfA Supernova Group, reports that a spectrum (range 340-740 nm)
of PSN J13412766-3200010 = 2012ag was obtained on Feb. 19 UT by J. Irwin with
the F. L. Whipple Observatory 1.5-m telescope (+ FAST). Cross-correlation
with a library of supernova spectra using the "Supernova Identification" code
(SNID; Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) shows that 2012ag is a type-Ia
supernova more than three weeks after maximum light. A good fit is found to
the template of the normal type-Ia supernova 2003cg at +24 days.
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2012 February 20 (CBET 3027) Daniel W. E. Green
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