SIMBAD references

Y. Cao, California Institute of Technology; M. M. Kasliwal, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Princeton University; G. Wallerstein and A. Ritchey, University of Washington; and D. A. Howell, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope and University of California at Santa Barbara, on behalf of a large collaboration, report that they obtained a low-resolution spectrum of SN 2012A (cf. CBET 2974) on Jan. 10.275 UT with the Dual Imaging Spectograph on the ARC 3.5-m telescope at Apache Point Observatory. The presence of a blue continuum and P-Cyg Balmer features allow them to classify 2012A as a type-II supernova. The minimum of the H-alpha absorption is blue-shifted by 9000 km/s.