Electronic Telegram No. 3771

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 2014A IN NGC 5054

     Further to CBET 3743, H. Kim, 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 NGC 5054 on unfiltered
KAIT images:

 SN       2014 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2014A    Jan. 1.58   13 16 59.36  -16 37 57.0   16.4    12".5 E, 8".6 N

Nothing was detected at this position on a KAIT image taken on 2013 June 16.2
UT (limiting mag about 18.0).  A finding chart was posted at website URL
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~zwk/findingchart/PSN_J13165936-16375704.jpg.  The
variable was designated PSN J13165936-1637570 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2014A based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  The type-Ia supernova 2004ab also
appeared in NGC 5054 (cf. IAUC 8293).

Host galaxy info: vel= 1742 km/s ; 5.1" x 3.0"; 10.8B; SA(s)bc;BrClG

SN type info: IIP

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