Electronic Telegram No. 3983
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2011kj = PSN J05112123-2553059
     A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, and R. Williams,
California Institute of Technology; J. L. Prieto, Carnegie Observatories;
R. H. McNaught and G. Garradd, Australian National 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 Catalina Real-time Transient Survey discovery
of an apparent supernova in unfiltered Catalina Sky Survey and Siding Spring
Survey (SSS) images:

 SN       2011 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2011kj   Jan. 23.55   5 11 21.23  -25 53 05.9   16.7     1" E, 7" S

The variable was designated PSN J05112123-2553059 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011kj based on the
spectroscopic confirmation of this as a type-Ia supernova on 2011 Jan. 25 or
26 by J. Prieto (cf. URL http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=3126).
Further SSS magnitudes for 2011kj:  2010 Sept. 7.80 UT, [18.7; 2011 Jan. 6.58,
16.8.


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