SIMBAD references

S. Howerton, Arkansas City, KS, U.S.A.; A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, and R. Williams, California Institute of Technology; J. L. Prieto, Carnegie Observatories; M. Catelan, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; E. C. Beshore and S. M. Larson, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and E. Christensen, Gemini Observatory, report the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey's discovery of an apparent supernova in public images from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011bg Mar. 26.34 11 56 14.31 +25 21 11.9 16.7 1" N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

This variable was designated PSN J11561431+2521119 when posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011bg based on the spectroscopic report below. Further unfiltered CCD magnitudes for 2011bg: Mar. 5.33 UT, [18.4 (CSS); 28.31, 16.3 (remotely using a 0.5-m LB-1 telescope at Rodeo, NM, U.S.A.).