TNS Classification Report No. 20934 [ 2025TNSCR1636....1H ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-05-02 05:37:57
Sender: Xander Hall
Group: DESIRT

Xander J. Hall (CMU), Erica Hammerstein (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Carney (UNC), Igor Andreoni (UNC), Jean Somalwar (Caltech), Xinyue Sheng (QUB), Antonella Palmese (CMU), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley), Ryan Chornock (UC Berkeley), Brendan O’Connor (CMU), Vikram Ravi (Caltech) on behalf of the ZTF AGN/TDE working group and the 2DTS team. report/s a classification of object: TDE 2025hbw

Type: TDE
Redshift: 0.6278

Remarks: We believe this is a high redshift, extraordinarily luminous tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate. Further observations are underway to confirm this classification.

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2025-04-20 10:01:12
Instrument: GMOS
Telescope: Gemini North

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://sandbox.wis-tns.org/object/2025hbw