Electronic Telegram No. 3805
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director:  Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
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SUPERNOVA 2014P IN ESO 264-G49 = PSN J10540400-4548436
     Stuart Parker, Canterbury, New Zealand, reports the discovery of an
apparent supernova (red mag 17.8) on a 30-s unfiltered CCD image (limiting mag
19) taken by Parker on Feb. 2.514 UT with a 30-cm Astro-Tech AT12RC Ritchey-
Chretien astrograph (+ ST10 camera) at his Parkdale Observatory in the course
of the Backyard Observatory Supernova Search.  The new object is located at
R.A. = 10h54m04s.00, Decl. = -45d48'43".6 (equinox 2000.0; reference stars
from USNO-B and UCAC4 catalogues), which is 1" west and 17" north of the
nucleus of the galaxy ESO 264-G49.  Nothing is visible at this position on
Digitized Sky Survey red and infrared images (limiting red magnitude > 19).
The variable was designated PSN J10540400-4548436 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2014P based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  Nick James, Chelmsford, Essex,
England, reports that he measured unfiltered CCD magnitude 16.3 and position
end figures 04s.07, 43".3 (UCAC-4 reference stars) from an observation made
remotely on Feb. 9.597 with the iTelescope T9 instrumentation at Siding
Spring.

     M. Ergon, Stockholm University; G. Leloudas, Stockholm University and
Dark Cosmology Centre; J. Johansson, F. Taddia, and J. Sollerman, Stockholm
University; S. Taubenberger, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching;
J. Anderson, European Southern Observatory, Chile; S. Benetti and A.
Pastorello, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova; C. Inserra, S. Smartt, K.
Smith, and D. Young, Queen's University, Belfast; M. Sullivan, University of
Southampton; S. Valenti, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope; M. Fraser,
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge; O. Yaron, A. Gal-Yam, and I. Manulis,
Weizmann Institute for Science; and C. Knapic, R. Smareglia, and M. Molinaro,
Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, on behalf of the PESSTO collaboration
(see Valenti et al., via URL http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=4037),
report that optical spectroscopy (range 360-910 nm), obtained on Feb. 6 UT
with the New Technology Telescope (+ EFOSC2), shows that PSN J10540400-4548436
= SN 2014P is a type-IIn supernova at redshift z = 0.0190; the best fit is to
the spectrum of SN 1995G at +35 days.  PESSTO classification spectra can be
obtained from website URL http://www.pessto.org/; classification is made via
SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) and GELATO (Harutyunyan et al.
2008, A.Ap. 488, 383).


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2014 February 15                 (CBET 3805)              Daniel W. E. Green