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The Astrophysical Journal LettersFlares produced following the tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes can reveal the properties of the otherwise dormant majority of black holes and the physics of accretion.
Lydia Makrygianni +39 more
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Weighing Black Holes Using Tidal Disruption Events [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 Abstract While once rare, observations of stars being tidally disrupted by supermassive black holes are quickly becoming commonplace. To continue to learn from these events, it is necessary to robustly and systematically compare our growing number of observations with theory.
Brenna Mockler +2 more
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TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS PREFER UNUSUAL HOST GALAXIES [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016 ABSTRACT Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are transient events observed when a star passes close enough to a supermassive black hole to be tidally destroyed. Many TDE candidates have been discovered in host galaxies whose spectra have weak or no line emission yet strong Balmer line absorption, indicating a period of intense star formation ...
K. Decker French +2 more
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Workshop on Stellar Tidal Disruption [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2011 AbstractThe past year has seen major advances in the observational status of Stellar Tidal Disruption, with the discovery of two strong optical candidates in archived SDSS data and the real-time X-ray detection of Swift J1644+57, plus rapid radio and optical follow-up establishing it as a probable Tidal Disruption Flare (TDF) in “blazar mode”.
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A DARK YEAR FOR TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 Accepted to ApJ. Updated version adds new figure (Figure 9). 11 pages, 9 figures.
James Guillochon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
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Tidal Disruption Events in Active Galactic Nuclei [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 Abstract A fraction of tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) whose black holes possess accretion disks; these TDEs can be confused with common AGN flares. The disruption itself is unaffected by the disk, but the evolution of the bound debris stream is modified by its collision with the disk when it returns
Chi-Ho Chan +3 more
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Tidal disruptions of rubble piles: The case of Phobos
Astronomy & AstrophysicsContext. Many small satellites in the Solar System have sub-synchronous orbits, meaning their orbits are decaying due to tidal dissipation. Unless they have substantial material strength, they will eventually tidally disrupt before reaching their planet ...
Agrusa H., Michel P.
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Multiband lightcurves of tidal disruption events
, 2010 9 pages, 7 figures. Minor typos corrected in Eqs.(10), (11) and (24)
G. Lodato, E. M. Rossi
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Neutrinos from Tidal Disruption Events [PDF]
Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019), 2019 When a star is disrupted by a supermassive black hole, and its debris are accreted onto it, a powerful hadronic jet can be generated and be a source of high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays. I review the simplest models of neutrino production from such Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs), and show that the resulting neutrino flux is detectable, and can ...
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The Astrophysical JournalClose encounter between a star and a supermassive black hole (SMBH) results in the tidal disruption of the star, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE).
Jialun Zhuang +3 more
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