SIMBAD references

A. Pastorello, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, M. Fiaschi, P. Ochner, L. Tomasella, M. Turatto, and S. Valenti, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, report that a spectrogram of 2012bp, obtained on Mar. 27.13 UT with the Asiago 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC; range 340-820 nm; resolution 2.4 nm), suggests that it is a type-Ia supernova. Adopting for the host galaxy a redshift z = 0.02829 (SDSS 2004, via NED) the comparison with a library of supernovae spectra via GELATO (Harutyuyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383) shows that 2012bp is a type-Ia event similar to SN 2003du (Stanishev et al. 2007, A.Ap. 469, 645) close to B-band maximum light. The expansion velocity deduced from the Si II 635.5-nm minimun is about 10800 km/s.