Further evidence to support a tidal disruption event in the changing-look AGN SDSS J0159
Abstract
In this Letter, we report further evidence to support a tidal disruption event (TDE) in the known changing-look AGN SDSS J0159, through the unique variabilities of asymmetric broad H: broader but redder in 2010 than in 2000. Accepted the broad H emission regions tightly related to accreting debris in a central TDE, the well-known relativistic accretion disk origination can be applied to well explain the asymmetric broad H variabilities in SDSS J0159. Moreover, the model determined broad H emission regions have the sizes not follow the empirical R-L relation valid in normal broad line AGN, but have locations basically similar to the regions of accreting debris from a central TDE in SDSS J0159, indicating tight connections between the broad H emission materials and central TDE debris. Therefore, explanations of the asymmetric broad H variabilities through the relativistic accretion disk origination provide further clues to support a central TDE in SDSS J0159.
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@article{arxiv.2011.06213,
title = {Further evidence to support a tidal disruption event in the changing-look AGN SDSS J0159},
author = {XueGuang Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06213},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
5pages, 3 figures and 1 table, accepted to be published in MNRAS Letter