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An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy.

Tanvir’s position as second author reflects his role as Principal Investigator for several of the key observing programs. This involved not only writing the proposals (including some written after the event occurred, for Directors Time), but also coordinating their operation, planning and triggering specific observations, scientific assessment of new data as the event unfolded and hence input into the strategic decisions about further followup. He was the first to obtain the redshift of the event, and took responsibility for the reduction of the infra-red imaging. Tanvir also had significant input into interpretation and paper writing, and wrote the Supplementary Online Material.