Electronic Telegram No. 3864
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2014au IN PGC 51192 = PSN J14192892-0537361
     S. Howerton, Arkansas City, KS, U.S.A.; A. J. Drake, M. J. Graham, S. G.
Djorgovski, A. A. Mahabal, and R. Williams, California Institute of
Technology; J. L. Prieto, Princeton University; M. Catelan, Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Chile; and E. Christensen and S. M. Larson, Lunar and
Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; report the Catalina Real-time
Transient Survey discovery of an apparent supernova in public images from the
Mount Lemmon Survey:

 SN       2014 UT        R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2014au   Apr. 20.31   14 19 28.92  - 5 37 36.1   20.2    5".8 E, 43".9 S

The variable was designated PSN J14192892-0537361 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2014au based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  Additional CCD magnitudes for
2014au:  Apr. 20.580, 20.2 (Howerton; remotely with the iTelescope T17 0.43-m
reflector + clear filter at Siding Spring; image posted at website URL
https://www.flickr.com/photos/watchingthesky/13929578352/); 21.325, 19.1
(Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope +
STXL-6303 camera at the New Mexico Skies observatory near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.;
position end figures 29s.05, 31".3; image posted at website URL
https://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/13963964454/); 21.940, 19.5
(Gianluca Masi, Francesca Nocentini, and Patrick Schmeer; remotely using a
43-cm telescope near Ceccano, Italy; position end figures 28s.99, 31".5).

     S. Benitez and S. Taubenberger, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik,
Garching; J. Polshaw, S. Smartt, C. Inserra, K. Smith, and D. Young, Queen's
University, Belfast; M. Fraser, University of Cambridge; J. Anderson, European
Southern Observatory (ESO), Chile; N. Elias-Rosa, S. Benetti, A. Pastorello,
and E. Cappellaro, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di
Astrofisica (INAf); M. Sullivan, University of Southampton; S. Valenti, Las
Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope and University of California at Santa
Barbara; O. Yaron, I. Manulis, and A. Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute for Science;
and C. Knapic, R. Smareglia and M. Molinaro, Trieste Astronomical Observatory,
INAf, on behalf of the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects
(PESSTO; see website URL http://www.pessto.org), report that a spectrogram of
PSN J14192892-0537361 = SN 2014au was taken with the ESO New Technology
Telescope at La Silla on Apr. 23.3, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (range 370-930
nm; 1.8-nm resolution).  Cross-correlation of the spectrum with a library of
template spectra using SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) gives a
best match to several type-IIP supernovae at the redshift of PGC 51192 (z =
0.03492; Jones et al. 2009, The 6dF Galaxy Survey Data Release 3) at phases
between 2 and 3 weeks after explosion.


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2014 May 7                       (CBET 3864)              Daniel W. E. Green