2011CBET.2660....2H

E. Y. Hsiao, N. Suzuki, and P. E. Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, report that inspection of a CCD spectrum (range 350-980 nm), obtained on Feb. 27.25 UT with the 3-m Shane reflector (+ Kast) at Lick Observatory, shows that 2011ag is a type-Ia supernova. The "superfit" software of Howell et al. (2005, Ap.J. 634, 1190) identified the spectrum as that of a type-Ia supernova around a week past maximum. The redshift matches that of the reported host galaxy (PGC 11943): z = 0.032. The spectrum closely resembles that of SN 1998bu at 10 days past maximum (Jha et al. 1999, Ap.J. Suppl. 125, 73).