Electronic Telegram No. 3278

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2012fs IN IC 35 = PSN J00373938+1021290
     A. Dimai, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, reports his discovery, in the course
of the Italian Supernovae Search Project (ISSP), of an apparent supernova (mag
about 16.5) on two unfiltered CCD images (limiting mag about 18.0) taken with
the 0.28-m telescope of the Col Drusci Observatory on Oct. 7.960 UT.  The new
object is located at R.A. = 0h37m39s.38, Decl. = +10d21'29".0 (equinox 2000.0),
which is 6" west and 1" north of the nucleus of the galaxy IC 35.  ISSP images
of the same field taken on Sept. 24.9 (limiting mag about 18.0) showed nothing
at this position, nor do Palomar Sky Survey infrared, red, and blue plates.
The variable was designated PSN J00373938+1021290 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2012fs based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  Additional CCD magnitudes for
2012fs (unfiltered unless noted otherwise):  Oct. 8.935, 16.5 (Dimai; limiting
mag about 18.0; Takahashi TOA-150 telescope at the Nerpio Observatory in
Spain); 9.224, 16.3 (Planewave 43-cm CDK telescope, Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; image
posted at URL http://www.cortinastelle.it/PSNJ00373938_1021290_20121009.jpg);
10.211, 17.4 (J. Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; luminance filter; position end
figures 39s.5, 28".5); 10.914, 18.1 (Federica Luppi and Luca Buzzi, Varese,
Italy; position end figures 39s.52, 29".1; image posted at website URL
http://www.astrogeo.va.it/pub/TOCP/PSN_I35.jpg); 10.919, 16.6 (P. Camilleri,
New Castle, Australia; three 60-s images remotely taken with a 0.43-m f/4.5
telescope at Observatoire du Mas des Gres, Moydans, France; position end
figures 39s.50 +/- 0".3, 28.5" +/- 0".3; NOMAD reference stars); 16.024,
16.6 (Xavier Bros, Ager, Spain; 35-cm f/4.6 telescope; position end figures
39s.57, 28".8; UCAC2 reference stars; image posted at website URL
http://www.anysllum.com/PSN_IC35.jpg); 23.906, 16.7 (S. Foglia and G. Galli,
Pogliano Milanese, Italy; 0.28-m f/6.8 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope + ST8XME
camera; position end figures 39s.48, 29".6; UCAC-3 reference stars).
Brimacombe's image is posted at the following website URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/8076469943/.

     C. Inserra, S. J. Smartt, M. Fraser, D. Young, and K. Smith, Queen's
University, Belfast; F. Cellier-Holzem and P. El-Hage, Laboratoire de Physique
Nucleaire et de Hautes Energies, Paris; Y.-C. Pan, University of Oxford; M.
Sullivan, University of Southampton; I. Arcavi, A. Gal-Yam, and O. Yaron,
Wiezmann Institute of Science; S. Benetti, A. Pastorello, and S. Valenti,
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Padova; and S. Taubenberger, A. Sternberg,
and S. Benitez-Herrera, Max-Planck-Institute fuer Astrophysik, Garching, on
behalf of the PESSTO collaboration (see Valenti et al., posted at website URL
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=4037), report that optical
spectroscopy (range 360-910 nm), obtained on Oct. 9 with the New Technology
Telescope (+ EFOSC2), show that PSN J00373938+1021290 = SN 2012fs is a
type-IIP supernova at redshift z = 0.015; the best fit is to the spectrum of
SN 2004et within a few days from explosion.  PESSTO classification spectra
can be obtained from website URL http://www.pessto.org/; classification is
made via SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) and GELATO
(Harutyunyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383).


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2012 November 1                  (CBET 3278)              Daniel W. E. Green