Circular No. 8141

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SUPERNOVAE 2003ew, 2003ex, 2003ey, AND 2003ez

     Further to IAUC 8140, several additional apparent supernovae
     have been reported by L. G. Strolger et al. (2003ew), by W. M.
     Wood-Vasey et al. (2003ex, 2003ey) and by M. Papenkova and W. Li
     (2003ez).

     SN      2003 UT       R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.   Mag.      Offset
     2003ew  Jan.  4.7   12 36 27.78  +62 11 25.1  24.1  0".21 W, 0".1 S
     2003ex  Mar. 26.44  13 27 32.31  + 5 31 14.4  19.1  2".5 W, 1".1 S
     2003ey  May  24.33  14 20 03.28  - 8 28 40.0  19.2  2".4 W, 0".8 S
     2003ez  June  3.2   12 43 11.87  - 2 30 04.1  17.5  4".5 W, 0".7 S

     Further magnitudes provided by the respective observers: SN 2003ew,
     2003 Feb. 20.4 UT, 24.3; May 21.8, [26.0.  SN 2003ex, 2002 May 6.23,
     [21.4; 2003 Feb. 5.57, [20.8; Apr. 6.39, 19.8; 14.40, [19.1; 20.41,
     19.8; 24.42, [20.3; 25.59, [19.2; 26.37, 19.8; 28.40, [18.4; 29.39,
     20.2; May 2.39, [19.5; 3.34, 19.8; 6.40, [19.8; 7.35, 20.1; 8.29,
     20.4 (uncertainty up to 0.4 mag on the NEAT data).  SN 2003ey, 2002
     Apr. 8.48, [21.4; 2003 Mar. 27.45, [21.1; Apr. 9.57, [19.4; 27.46,
     [19.5; May 2.42, [19.0; 30.28, 18.8.  SN 2003ez in PGC 42782, May
     21.2, [19.0; June 4.2, 17.4. 

Host galaxy info: vel = 14343 km/s, 0.57 x 0.42, 15.90, SB(rs)c pec

SN type info: Ia

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