Why do you think I'm assuming the type of the most well studied optical transient we've had this century? This is a source that was observed by something like a

Why do you think I'm assuming the type of the most well studied optical transient we've had this century? This is a source that was observed by something like a hundred different teams. I'm ruling out a SN origin on the basis of the (at least) dozen of direct observations that show it isn't.