[IAUC] CBET 3179: 20120718 : SUPERNOVA 2012do

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 3179
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVA 2012do
     A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, A. Mahabal, and R. Williams,
California Institute of Technology; J. L. Prieto, Princeton University; M.
Catelan, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; and S. M. Larson and E.
Christensen, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, report the
discovery of an apparent supernova in unfiltered Catalina Sky Survey (CSS)
images:

 SN       2012 UT        R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.
 2012do   June 20.24   13 56 35.28  + 4 46 52.3   17.5

Further CSS magnitudes for 2012do:  May 22.33 UT, [18.9; June 13.23, 18.4.

     L. Tomasella, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, P. Ochner, A. Pastorello, M.
Turatto, and S. Valenti, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto
Nazionale di Astrofisica, report that a spectrogram of 2012do, obtained on
July 16.91 UT with the Asiago 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC; range
340-820 nm; resolution 2.4 nm), suggests that it is a normal type-Ia supernova.
Cross-correlation with a library of supernova spectra via the "Supernova
Identification" code (SNID; Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) shows that
2012do is similar to several normal type-Ia supernovae at about two weeks
after maximum at a redshift about 0.054.


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