2012CBET.3167....2P

J. T. Parrent and D. A. Howell report that an optical spectrum (range 350-970 nm) of PSN J23144798-4336223 = 2012dj was obtained on July 6 UT with the Gemini-Multi-Object-Spectrograph (GMOS) on the 8-m Gemini South telescope. Cross comparisons with a library of supernovae spectra via "Superfit" (Howell et al. 2005, Ap.J. 634, 1190) suggest that 2012dj is a type-Ib/c supernova near maximum light. Correcting for a host-galaxy recession velocity of 1597 km/s for NGC 7531 (HIPASS, via NED), the He I 587.6-nm absorption feature is estimated to be blue-shifted by 6400 km/s.