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, Princeton University; M. Catelan, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; R. H. McNaught and G. Garradd, Australian National University; E. C. Beshore and S. M. Larson, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and E. Christensen, Gemini Observatory, report the discovery of an apparent supernova in public images from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011gi Sep. 21.27 0 32 43.00 +26 06 51.6 18.2 13".8 W, 13".6 S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

This variable was designated PSN J00324300+2606516 when it was posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated 2011gi based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional unfiltered CCD magnitudes for 2011gi: June 10.44 UT, [19.5 (CSS); Sept. 23.151, 18.5 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; position end figures 43s.00, 51".2; image posted at URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6177438626/); 23.246, 17.9 (R. A. Koff, Bennett, CO, USA; Meade 0.25-m f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector + Apogee AP-47p CCD camera; thirty stacked 60-s images; limiting mag 20.5; image scale 2"/pixel; position end figures 42s.97, 51".2, UCAC3 reference stars).