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Relativistic accretion disc in tidal disruption events

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-06-17 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We construct a time-dependent relativistic accretion model for tidal disruption events (TDEs) with an α\alpha-viscosity and the pressure dominated by gas pressure. We also include the mass fallback rate M˙f\dot{M}_f for both full and partial disruption TDEs, and assume that the infalling debris forms a seed disc in time tct_c, which evolves due to the mass addition from the infalling debris and the mass loss via accretion onto the black hole. Besides, we derive an explicit form for the disc height that depends on the angular momentum parameter in the disc. We show that the surface density of the disc increases at an initial time due to mass addition, and then decreases as the mass fallback rate decreases, which results in a decrease in the disc mass MdM_{\rm d} with a late-time evolution of Mdt1.05M_{\rm d} \propto t^{-1.05} and Mdt1.38M_{\rm d} \propto t^{-1.38} for full and partial disruption TDEs respectively, where tt is the time parameter. The bolometric luminosity LL shows a rise and decline that follows a power-law at late times given by Lt1.8L \propto t^{-1.8} and Lt2.3L \propto t^{-2.3} for full and partial disruption TDEs respectively. Our obtained luminosity declines faster than the luminosity inferred using LM˙fL \propto \dot{M}_f. We also compute the light curves in various spectral bands.

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@article{arxiv.2006.02764,
  title  = {Relativistic accretion disc in tidal disruption events},
  author = {T. Mageshwaran and Sudip Bhattacharyya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.02764},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

22 pages, 19 figures with 37 sub-figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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