Electronic Telegram No. 3382
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2012ij IN PGC 36194
     D. D. Balam, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, National Research
Council of Canada; M. L. Graham, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope,
University of California at Santa Barbara; and E. Y. Hsiao, Las Campanas
Observatory, report that a spectrogram (range 370-704 nm, resolution 0.3 nm)
of PSN J11401584+1727222 = SN 2012ij (cf. CBET 3370), obtained on Jan. 11.44
UT with the 1.82-m Plaskett Telescope of the National Research Council of
Canada, shows it to be a type-Ia supernova near maximum light.
Cross-correlation with a library of supernova spectra using the "Supernova
Identification" code (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) indicates that
2012ij is most similar to the type-Ia supernova 2004eo at 3 days pre-maximum.


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2013 January 15                  (CBET 3382)              Daniel W. E. Green