Discovery and Early Evolution of ASASSN-19bt, the First TDE Detected by TESS

Thomas W. -S. Holoien, Patrick J. Vallely, Katie Auchettl +22

We present the discovery and early evolution of ASASSN-19bt, a tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) at a distance of $d\…