Electronic Telegram No. 2834 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau@eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat@iau.org) URL http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network SUPERNOVA 2011gb = PSN J01334294+3448371 A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, and R. Williams, California Institute of Technology; J. L. Prieto, Carnegie Observatories; M. Catelan, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; E. C. Beshore and S. M. Larson, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and E. Christensen, Gemini Observatory, report the discovery of an apparent supernova in unfiltered Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) images: SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2011gb Sep. 24.30 1 33 42.94 +34 48 37.1 16.1 4".5 W, 1".1 S The new object was designated PSN J01334294+3448371 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011gb based on the spectroscopic report below. Additional CCD magnitudes for 2011gb (unfiltered unless noted otherwise): Jan. 16.23, [18.5 (CSS); Sept. 24.850, 15.9 (D. Denisenko, Moscow, Russia; 0.20-m f/5 reflector + Meade DSI Pro II camera; position end figures 42s.84, 36".8; image posted at the following website URL: http://pics.livejournal.com/bigdenru/pic/000a957p/); 24.897, 15.5 (Paolo Corelli, Pagnacco, Italy; 0.45-m f/4.5 telescope; position end figures 42s.8, 36".8; nearby galaxy centered at position end figures 43s.35, 37".9); 25.187, 16.3 (J. Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; position end figures 42s.86, 37".0; image posted at URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6186780582/); 26.875, 16.3 (Nick James, Chelmsford, Essex, England; Celestron 11 telescope + ST9XE camera; position end figures 42s.84, 36".9; UCAC-3 reference stars). S. Valenti, S. Benetti, L. Tomasella, and P. Ochner, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica; and A. Pastorello, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita di Padova, on behalf of a larger collaboration, report that a spectrogram of PSN J01334294+3448371 = SN 2011gb, obtained on Sept. 25.06 UT, suggests that it is a type-Ia supernova observed a few weeks after B-band maximum at a redshift z = 0.014. NOTE: These 'Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams' are sometimes superseded by text appearing later in the printed IAU Circulars. (C) Copyright 2011 CBAT 2011 September 29 (CBET 2834) Daniel W. E. Green