Circular No. 7597

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SUPERNOVA 2001ae IN IC 4229

A. Friedman and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley, on behalf of LOTOSS (cf. IAUC 7514), report the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag about 17.3) on unfiltered images taken on Mar. 15.5 and 16.3 UT with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT). SN 2001ae is located at R.A. = 13h22m26s.16, Decl. = -2 25'25".0 (equinox 2000.0), which is 1".0 east and 18".3 south of the nucleus of IC 4229. The new object was also confirmed on an unfiltered CCD image taken by M. Schwartz on Mar. 16.4 with the Tenagra Observatory 0.5-m automatic telescope. A KAIT image taken on Feb. 27.5 showed nothing at this position (limiting mag about 19.0).

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Host galaxy info: V = 6984 km/s, 1.0'x0.7', 14.40, (R')SB(r)b pec:

SN type info: II

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