To TDE or not to TDE: The luminous transient ASASSN-18jd with TDE-like and AGN-like qualities

J. M. M. Neustadt, T. W. -S. Holoien, C. S. Kochanek +26

We present the discovery of ASASSN-18jd (AT 2018bcb), a luminous optical/UV/X-ray transient located in the nucleus of the galaxy 2MASX J22434289--1659083 at $z=0.1192$. Over the ye…