Electronic Telegram No. 3480
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2013bh
     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; S. M. Larson and E.
Christensen, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and R. H.
McNaught, Australian National University, report the Catalina Real-time
Transient Survey discovery of an apparent supernova in unfiltered Catalina
Sky Survey images:

 SN       2013 UT        R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2013bh   Apr. 3.41   15 02 13.09  +10 38 45.6    18.5    15".9 W, 2".0 N

     S. Taubenberger, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching; S.
Hachinger, University of Wuerzburg; N. Elias-Rosa and A. Morales-Garoffolo,
Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai, IEEC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas, Barcelona; S. Benetti and A. Pastorello, Osservatorio Astronomico
di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica; S. Valenti, Las Cumbres
Observatory Global Telescope and University of California at Santa Barbara;
M. Fraser, S. J. Smartt, K. Smith, and D. Young, Queen's University, Belfast;
M. Sullivan, University of Southampton; and A. Gal-Yam and O. Yaron, Weizmann
Institute for Science, on behalf of the PESSTO collaboration (see website URL
http://www.pessto.org), report that they obtained spectra of 2013bh on Apr. 4
with the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope (+ EFOSC2
and Grism 13; range 398.5-931.5 nm; 1.8-nm resolution) at La Silla.  The
spectrum of 2013bh is classified as a peculiar type-Ia supernova with good
matches to SN 2000cx around maximum at a redshift of 0.070.  The
classification was made via GELATO (Harutyunyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383)
and SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024).


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2013 April 20                    (CBET 3480)              Daniel W. E. Green