Tidal effects in the vicinity of a black hole
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2012-04-17 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
The discovery that the Galactic centre emits flares at various wavelengths represents a puzzle concerning their origin, but at the same time it is a relevant opportunity to investigate the environment of the nearest super-massive black hole. In this paper we shall review some of our recent results concerning the tidal evolution of the orbits of low mass satellites around black holes, and the tidal effect during their in-fall. We show that tidal interaction can offer an explanation for transient phenomena like near infra-red and X-ray flares from Sgr A*.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.0117,
title = {Tidal effects in the vicinity of a black hole},
author = {A. Cadez and U. Kostic and M. Calvani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0117},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Zeldovich Meeting 2009, Minsk