2012CBET.2996....2M

N. Morrell, Las Campanas Observatory, on behalf of the Carnegie Supernova Project, reports that optical spectroscopy (range 430-1000 nm), obtained on 2012 Jan. 16 UT with the 6.5-m Magellan I (Baade) telescope (+ IMACS), shows that PSN J05142826-6210190 = SN 2011ka is a type-Ia supernova roughly 10 days after maximum brightness. SNID provides excellent matches with a number of normal type-I supernovae, the best among them being with 1998bu at 10.2 days after maximum light. Assuming for ESO 119-46 the NED recession velocity of 5183 km/s (Couto da Silva and de Souza 2006, A.Ap. 457, 425), the minimum of the 635.5-nm Si II absorption appears blueshifted by approximately 10800 km/s.