SIMBAD references

M. Dennefeld, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris; J. Whitbourne, University of Durham; and S. Benetti, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, report that a spectrum (range 370-730 nm; resolution 0.66 nm) of 2012L was obtained on Jan. 19.92 UT with the Haute-Provence 1.93-m telescope (+ Carelec). Using a library of supernova spectra via GELATO (Harutyunyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383; https://gelato.tng.iac.es/login.cgi), they found a best fit with normal type-Ia supernova about 10 days after maximum, if a redshift of about 0.075 is assumed for the parent galaxy.