Electronic Telegram No. 3700

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau@eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat@iau.org) URL http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

SUPERNOVAE 2013gd IN MCG-01-10-39

     Further to CBET 3678, C. Casper, K. L. Fuller, W. Zheng, W. Li, and A. V.
Filippenko, University of California at Berkeley; and S. B. Cenko, Goddard
Space Flight Center, report the LOSS discovery of a supernova in MCG -01-10-39
on unfiltered KAIT images:

 SN       2013 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2013gd   Nov. 9.35    3 49 05.64  - 3 03 28.3   16.9    2".5 E, 9".5 N

A finding chart for the new object was posted at the following website URL:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~zwk/findingchart/PSN_J03490564-03032833.jpg.  The
variable was designated PSN J03490564-0303283 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2013gd based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  Additional approximate CCD
magnitudes for 2013gd:  Nov. 5.3 UT, [18.5 (KAIT); 10.075, 16.3 (Gianluca Masi,
Francesca Nocentini, and Patrick Schmeer; remotely using a 43-cm robotic
telescope near Ceccano, Italy; position end figures 05s.67, 28".6); 10.3, 16.8
(KAIT); 10.329, 16.8 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; remotely with a
51-cm RCOS telescope, STXL-6303 camera located at the New Mexico Skies
observatory near Mayhill, NM, USA; position end figures 05s.65, 28".8; image
posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/10789180596/).

Host galaxy info: vel= 4021 km/s ; 1.5" x 0.3"; 15.13; Sb

SN type info: IIP

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