Electronic Telegram No. 3333
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director:  Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
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SUPERNOVA 2012hj IN MCG +08-20-89 = PSN J11071919+4622462
     T. Boles, Coddenham, England, reports the discovery of an apparent
supernova (mag 17.7) on unfiltered CCD images taken on Dec. 4.168 and
4.990 with a 0.35-m reflector.  The new object is located at R.A. =
11h07m19s.19, Decl. = +46o22'46.2" (equinox 2000.0), which is approximately
5".5 west and 14".1 south of the center of MCG +08-20-89 (= PGC 33672).
Nothing is present at this position on Digitized Sky Survey plates from
1997 Mar. 6 (limiting red mag 20.5) and 1990 Jan. 25 (limiting blue mag 21.0).
The variable was designated PSN J11071919+4622462 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2012hj based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  Additional magnitudes for 2012hj:
2011 Nov. 27, [19.5 (Boles); and 2012 Jan. 26, [19.5 (Boles); Dec. 4.960,
17.7 (Ron Arbour, South Wonston, U.K., 35-cm f/6 reflector; position end
figures 19s.22, 46".3); 5.419, 18.2 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia;
remotely with a 51-cm RCOS telescope + luminance filter at the New Mexico
Skies Observatory near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end figures 19s.25,
45".5; image posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/8247892481/);
5.424, 18.0 (L. Elenin, Lyubertsy, Russia; and I. Molotov, Moscow; remotely
taken with a 0.45-m f/2.8 telescope at the ISON-NM Observatory near Mayhill,
NM, USA; limiting mag about 19.4; position end figures 19s.27 +/- 0".06,
46".5 +/- 0".05; UCAC-4 reference stars; image posted at website URL
http://spaceobs.org/images/TOCP/PSNJ11071919+4622462-20121205.png).

     L. Tomasella, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, P. Ochner, A. Pastorello, and M.
Turatto, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica,
report that optical spectroscopy (range 340-820 nm; resolution 1.3 nm),
obtained on Dec. 5.15 UT with the Asiago 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC;
range 350-820 nm, resolution 1.3 nm), indicates that PSN J11071919+4622462 =
SN 2012hj is a very young type-Ia supernova about ten days before maximum
light, at redshift z = 0.024597 (Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4,
2005; via NED).  The expansion velocity, deduced from the Si II 635.5-nm
absorption, is about 16000 km/s.  The Asiago classification spectra are posted
at website URL http://graspa.oapd.inaf.it; 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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2012 December 6                  (CBET 3333)              Daniel W. E. Green