Discovery and follow-up of ASASSN-19dj: An X-ray and UV luminous TDE in an extreme post-starburst galaxy

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the Las Cumbres Observatory and its staff for its continuing support of the ASAS-SN project. LCOGT observations were performed as part of DDT award 2019B-003 to EG. ASAS-SN is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through grant GBMF5490 to the Ohio State University, and NSF grants AST-1515927 and AST-1908570. Development of ASAS-SN has been supported by NSF grant AST-0908816, the Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation, the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences South America Center for Astronomy (CAS-SACA), the Villum Foundation, and George Skestos. BJS, CSK, and KZS are supported by NSF grant AST-1907570/AST-1908952.BJS is also supported by NSF grants AST-1920392 and AST-1911074. CSK and KZS are supported by NSF grant AST-181440. KAA is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF132). MJG was supported in part by the NSF grant AST-1815034 and the NASA grant 16-ADAP16-0232. MAT acknowledges support from the DOE CSGF through grant DE-SC0019323. Support for GP and JLP is provided in part by FONDECYT through the grant 1191038 and by the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism's Millennium Science Initiative through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, MAS. TAT is supported in part by NASA grant 80NSSC20K0531. DAC acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant DGE1339067. We acknowledge Telescope Access Program (TAP) funded by the NAOC, CAS, and the Special Fund for Astronomy from the Ministry of Finance.The UCSC transient team is supported in part by NSF grant AST-1518052, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and by a fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to RJF.Parts of this research were supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project number CE170100013.This publication makes use of data products from the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) and the PS1 public science archive have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.Support for ATLAS observations and data products was provided by NASA grant NN12AR55G and 80NSSC18K0284. The CSS survey is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNG05GF22G issued through the Science Mission Directorate Near-Earth Objects Observations Program. The CRTS survey is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grants AST-0909182.Some of the data presented herein were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation.