Flaring, dust formation, and shocks in the very slow nova asassn-17pf (LMCN 2017-11a)

EA, LC, and KVS acknowledge NSF award AST1751874, NASA award 11-Fermi 80NSSC18K1746, and a Cottrell fellowship of the Research Corporation. JS was supported by the Packard Foundation. MJD acknowledges funding from the UK Science & Technology Facilities Council. KLP and NPMK acknowledge support from the UK Space Agency. PC and SD acknowledge NSFC Project 11573003. TAT acknowledges support from a Simons Foundation Fellowship and from an IBM Einstein Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. NDR is grateful for postdoctoral support by the University of Toledo and by the Helen Luedtke Brooks Endowed Professorship. SWJ is supported by NSF award AST-1615455. DAHB gratefully acknowledges the receipt of research grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. ASAS-SN thanks the Las Cumbres Observatory and its staff for its continuing support of the ASAS-SN project. ASAS-SN is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through grant GBMF5490 to the Ohio State University and NSF grant AST1515927. 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 (CASSACA), the Villum Foundation, and George Skestos.