SIMBAD references

The PTF (ATEL #1964; http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ptf/) reports the discovery of a new supernova, PTF10abyy. The supernova was discovered by Oarical, an autonomous software framework of the PTF collaboration, on December 8 UT at RA(J2000) = 05:16:40.52 and DEC(J2000) = +06:47:53.8 at a magnitude of 18.7 in R-band (calibrated with respect to the USNOB1 catalog). The supernova was not detected down to mag 21 in previous PTF images taken during Dec. 2010 (3-sigma). A spectrum was obtained using the LRIS Spectrograph (Oke et al. 1995, PASP, 107, 375) on the 10-m Keck telescope on Dec. 9 UT by H. Ebeling, revealing the supernova to be of type II. Blue continuum superposed with narrow emission lines of hydrogen and helium (including He II 4686) suggest a young SN IIn at z=0.0297. We have triggered our cycle 6 GALEX UV spectroscopy program, and GALEX will observe this target until Jan. 6, 2011. Follow-up at all wavelengths is encouraged.