2011CBET.2696....2T

L. Tomasella and S. Benetti, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova; and F. Bufano, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Catania, on behalf of a larger collaboration, report that a spectrum of 2011bn = PSN J16164236+0014299, obtained on Apr. 10.41 UT with the New Technology Telescope (+ EFOSC2; range 340-750 nm, resolution 1.3 nm), shows it to be a type-II supernova. The best fits to this noisy spectrum found by GELATO (Harutyunyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383; publicly available at https://gelato.tng.iac.es) are with spectra of type-II supernovae at about one month post explosion, adopting a recession velocity of 9183 km/s for UGC 10306 (Bottinelli et al. 1993, A.Ap. 102, 57; via NED).