Electronic Telegram No. 3664

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 2013fp IN IC 421

Further to CBET 3606, 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 possible supernova in IC 421 on unfiltered KAIT
images:

 SN       2013 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2013fp   Sep. 19.49   5 32 07.25  - 7 54 23.8   19.4    18".9 W, 41".8 N

A finding chart for the new object has been posted at the following website
URL:  http://astro.berkeley.edu/~zwk/findingchart/PSN_J05320725-07542376.jpg.
The variable was designated PSN J05320725-0754238 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2013fp based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  Additional approximate CCD
magnitudes for 2013fp:  Sept. 4.4 UT, [19.3 (KAIT); 20.4, 19.1 (KAIT); 23.5,
19.4 (KAIT); 23.740, 18.5 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; 41-cm RCOS
telescope + STL6K camera + infrared filter; bandpass > 700 nm; image posted
at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/9909942306/).
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Host galaxy info: vel= 3548 km/s ; 3.2" x 2.8"; 15; SAB(rs)bc          

SN type info: Ia

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