SIMBAD references

L. Tomasella, A. Pastorello, S. Valenti, and S. Benetti, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, on behalf of a larger collaboration, report that a spectrogram of PSN J11480032+0429471 = SN 2011ir, obtained on Nov. 28.16 UT with the Asiago 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC; range 350-820 nm, resolution 2.4 nm), shows it to be a type-II supernova. The best fit to this spectrum found by GELATO (Harutyunyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383; available at URL https://gelato.tng.iac.es/login.cgi) suggests that 2011ir is similar to SN 1998S (Lentz et al 2001, Ap.J. 547, 406) about one week after maximum light, adopting for the host galaxy a redshift of z = 0.01989 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, RC3 catalogue, via NED).