SIMBAD references

S. Howerton, Arkansas City, KS, U.S.A.; R. H. McNaught and G. Garradd, Australian National University; 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 public unfiltered-CCD images from the Siding Spring Survey (SSS):

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011gl Sep. 23.71 5 01 43.07 -15 23 24.7 18.2 42".9 E, 29".7 N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

The variable was designated PSN J05014307-1523247 when it was posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011gl based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional unfiltered CCD magnitudes for 2011gl: Mar. 26.45 UT, [19.3 (SSS); Sept. 25.483, 17.7 (J. Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; position end figures 43s.07, 25".3; image posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6183792395/.