SN 2001ie : Intrinsically bright type Ia
A. Dimai reported the discovery by A. Bincoletto of an apparent
supernova (mag about 16.5) in the image on Dec. 9 in IAUC 7771.
H. Yamaoka reported that the recession velocity of UGC 5542
(the host elliptical galaxy of SN 2001ie) is 9215 km/s, from which
the expected maximum for the normal SN Ia is about 1 mag dimmer than
reported
(vsnet-campaign-sn 293).
The CfA team (IAUC 7774) and the Asiago team (IAUC 7776) took a spectrum
of this object, which revealed that it was of type Ia a few days after
maximum on Dec. 13
(vsnet-campaign-sn 298).