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ELT Contributions to Tidal Disruption Events

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-03-06 v1
Authors: J. Craig Wheeler , Rafaella Margutti , Ryan Chornock , Dan Milisavljevic , Maryam Modjaz , Sung-Chul Yoon
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Abstract

An ELT system with its large aperture and sensitive optical and near infrared imager spectrographs will make major contributions to the study of stars ripped apart by supermassive black holes.

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astronomical instrumentation

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@article{arxiv.1903.01575,
  title  = {ELT Contributions to Tidal Disruption Events},
  author = {J. Craig Wheeler and Rafaella Margutti and Ryan Chornock and Dan Milisavljevic and Maryam Modjaz and Sung-Chul Yoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01575},
  year   = {2019}
}

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A Whitepaper Submitted to the Astro 2020 Decadal Survey Committee

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