SIMBAD references

W. Zheng, University of Michigan; J. Vinko, University of Szeged; G. H. Marion, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; F. Ferrante, G. Dhungana, and R. Kehoe, Southern Methodist University; R. Quimby, IPMU, University of Tokyo; A. Romadan and C. Akerlof, University of Michigan; F. Yuan, Australian National University; and J. C. Wheeler and E. Chatzopoulos, University of Texas, on behalf of the ROTSE collaboration, report the discovery of a new supernova (mag about 17.0) in unfiltered images taken on Sept. 17.99 UT with the 0.45-m ROTSE-IIId telescope at the Turkish National Observatory at Bakirlitepe. The transient was observed again at mag about 16.7 on Sept. 21.32 by the ROTSE-IIIb telescope at McDonald Observatory. There was no detection at the same position before Sept. 11, down to a limiting magnitude of about 18.2. The new object is located at R.A. = 1:50:51.2, Decl. = +33:08:25.4 (equinox 2000.0; uncertainty about 1"), which is 0".1 west and 2".7 north of the proposed host galaxy (SDSS J015051.24+330823.0, whose photo-z redshift is z = 0.0405 ± 0.0134); a finding chart is posted at URL http://www.rotse.net/rsvp/j015051.2+330825/ROTSE3_J015051.2+330825.jpg.