[IAUC] CBET 3940: 20140827 : SUPERNOVA 2014cc IN NGC 2255 = PSN J06335776-3448276

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 3940
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SUPERNOVA 2014cc IN NGC 2255 = PSN J06335776-3448276
     S. Parker, Canterbury, New Zealand, reports the discovery of an apparent
supernova (red mag 15.9) on a 30-s unfiltered CCD image (limiting mag 18.5)
taken by himself on Aug. 9.764 UT with an Officina Stellare 40-cm f/5.25 RiLA
Astrograph (+ ST10 camera) at his Parkdale Observatory in the course of the
Backyard Observatory Supernova Search.  The new object is located at R.A. =
6h33m57s.76, Decl. = -34d48'27".6 (equinox 2000.0; reference stars from USNO-B
and UCAC4 catalogues), which is 10" west and 17" north of the nucleus of the
galaxy NGC 2255.  Nothing is visible at this position on Digitized Sky Survey
red and infrared images (limiting red mag > 19).  An image of the variable can
be seen via website URL http://tinyurl.com/phb5zvv.  The variable was
designated PSN J06335776-3448276 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's
TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2014cc based on the spectroscopic
confirmation reported below.  Additional CCD magnitudes for 2014cc by J.
Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia (remotely with a 41-cm RCOS telescope + U9000
camera + luminance filter at the Warrumbungle Observatory, Siding Spring):
Aug. 10.823, 16.0 (position end figures 57s.77, 27".8; image posted at website
URL https://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/14890919372/); 11.819, 16.0
image posted at https://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/14890919372/).

     N. Elias-Rosa, L. Tartaglia, and L. Tomasella, Osservatorio Astronomico
di Padova, INAF; A. Morales-Garoffolo, Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai, IEEC,
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona; A. Pastorello,
Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, INAF; M. T. Botticella, Osservatorio
Astronomico di Capodimonte, INAF; C. Inserra, Queen's University, Belfast; K.
Maguire, European Southern Observatory; S. Smartt and K. W. Smith, Queen's
University, Belfast; M. Sullivan, Southampton University; S. Valenti, Las
Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope; O. Yaron, Weizmann Institute for
Science; D. Young, Queen's University, Belfast; I. Manulis, Weizmann Institute
for Science; C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz,
S. Rostami, and E. S. Walker, Yale University; U. Feindt and M. Kowalski,
Universitaet Bonn; P. Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; and L.
Wyrzykowski, Warsaw Observatory, report that an optical spectrogram of PSN
J06363000-6643540 = SN 2014cc, obtained on Aug. 15 UT with the European
Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope at La Silla using EFOSC2 and
Grism 13 (range 398.5-931.5 nm; 1.8-nm resolution) under PESSTO, the Public
ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Valenti et al., website
URL http://www.pessto.org), shows that this is a normal type-Ia supernova at
about three weeks after B-band maximum light.  Classifications were done with
SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) and GELATO (Harutyunyan et al.
2008, A.Ap. 488, 383).  Classification spectra can be obtained from the
PESSTO website (via WISeREP).

     N. Morrell and M. Phillips, Las Campanas Observatory; and E. Y. Hsiao,
Aarhus University, on behalf of the Carnegie Supernova Project, report that on
Aug. 14.34 UT they obtained an optical spectrogram (range 360-930 nm) of PSN
J06335776-3448276 = SN 2014cc with the Magellan I (Baade) telescope at Las
Campanas (+ IMACS), which shows this to be a type-Ia supernova near maximum
brightness.  Cross-correlation with a library of supernova spectra using the
Supernova Identification tool (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024)
provides an excellent match to the spectrum of SN 2007af at three days before
maxium light, along with many good comparisons with other normal type-Ia
supernovae around maximum.  Adopting for NGC 2255 a recession velocity of
6873 km/s (Thereau et al. 1998, A.Ap. Suppl. 130, 333; via NED), the minimum
of the Si II 635.5-nm absorption in the spectrum of 2014cc appears
blueshifted by approximately 10000 km/s.


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