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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 783, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/783/1/L24
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supernovae: general; supernovae: individual (SN 2014J)
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- TABASGO Foundation
- Sylvia & Jim Katzman Foundation
- Christopher R. Redlich Fund
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- NSF [AST-1211916]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1211916] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2014J in M82 (d approximate to 3.5 Mpc) was serendipitously discovered by S. Fossey's group on 2014 January 21 UT and has been confirmed to be the nearest known SN Ia since at least SN 1986G. Although SN 2014J was not discovered until similar to 7 days after first light, both the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope at Lick Observatory and K. Itagaki obtained several prediscovery observations of SN 2014J. With these data, we are able to constrain the object's time of first light to be January 14.75 UT, only 0.82 +/- 0.21 days before our first detection. Interestingly, we find that the light curve is well described by a varying power law, much like SN 2013dy, which makes SN 2014J the second example of a changing power law in early-time SN Ia light curves. A low-resolution spectrum taken on January 23.388 UT, similar to 8.70 days after first light, shows that SN 2014J is a heavily reddened but otherwise spectroscopically normal SN Ia.
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