SIMBAD references

L. Tomasella, S. Benetti, A. Pastorello, S. Valenti, E. Cappellaro, P. Ochner, and M. Turatto, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, report that a spectrogram of PSN J00500895-0511175 = SN 2012W, obtained on Jan. 30.74 UT with the Asiago 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC; range 350-820 nm; resolution 2.4 nm), suggests that 2012W is a type-II supernova. The best fit to this spectrum found by GELATO (Harutyunyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383) indicates that 2012W is similar to SN 2003hg (spectrum from Asiago Supernova Archive) a few days after explosion, assuming a redshift of 0.0183 (Catinella et al. 2005, A.J. 130, 1037; via NED) for the parent galaxy.