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Tidal disruption events and quasi‐periodic eruptions
Astronomische Nachrichten, 2023 Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes close to a massive black hole so that the tidal forces of the black hole exceed the binding energy of a star and cause it to be ripped apart. Part of the matter will fall onto the black hole, causing a strong increase in luminosity.
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Shock breakouts from tidal disruption events [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018 Tidal disruption events of stars by supermassive black holes have so far been discovered months to years after the fact. In this paper we explore the short, faint and hard burst of radiation is emitted at maximum compression, as a result of shock breakout. The detection of this burst can be used to capture tidal disruption events in real time.
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Brazilian Journal of Physics, 2013 The concept of stars being tidally ripped apart and consumed by a massive black hole (MBH) lurking in the center of a galaxy first captivated theorists in the late 1970s. The observational evidence for these rare but illuminating phenomena for probing otherwise dormant MBHs first emerged in archival searches of the soft X-ray ROSAT All-Sky Survey in ...
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Revisit the Rate of Tidal Disruption Events: The Role of the Partial Tidal Disruption Event
The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 Abstract Tidal disruption of stars in dense nuclear star clusters containing supermassive central black holes (SMBH) is modeled by high-accuracy direct N-body simulation. Stars getting too close to the SMBH are tidally disrupted, and a tidal disruption event (TDE) happens.
Shiyan Zhong +3 more
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Neutrinos from tidal disruption events [PDF]
Nature Astronomy, 2021 Tidal disruption events are an excellent probe for supermassive black holes in distant inactive galaxies because they show bright multi-wavelength flares lasting several months to years. AT2019dsg presents the first potential association with neutrino emission from such an explosive event.
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Tidal Disruption Flares as the Source of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays [PDF]
, 2012 The optical spectral energy distributions of two tidal disruption flares identified by van Velzen et al. (2011) in archival SDSS data, are found to be well-fit by a thin-accretion-disk model.
Farrar, Glennys R.
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Jets from Tidal Disruption Events [PDF]
New Astronomy Reviews, 2020 The discovery of jets from tidal disruption events (TDEs) rejuvenated the old field of relativistic jets powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes. In this Chapter, we first review the extensive multi-wavelength observations of jetted TDEs. Then, we show that these events provide valuable information on many aspects of jet physics from a new ...
De Colle, Fabio, Lu, Wenbin
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Underluminous tidal disruptions
, 2023 We have evidence of X-ray flares in several galaxies consistent with a a star being tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (MBH). If the star starts on a nearly parabolic orbit relative to the MBH, one can derive that the fallback rate follows a $t^{-5/3}$ decay.
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 We report the discovery of a faint optical tidal disruption event (TDE) in the nearby star-forming galaxy NGC 3799. Identification of the TDE is based on its position at the galaxy nucleus, a light curve declining as t ^−5/3 , a blue continuum with an ...
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GRB060218 as a Tidal Disruption of a White Dwarf by an Intermediate Mass Black Hole [PDF]
, 2013 A highly unusual pair of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB060218 and an associated supernova SN2006aj has puzzled theorists for years. A supernova shock breakout and a jet from a newborn stellar mass compact object were put forward to explain its ...
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