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We present resolved images of the inner disk component around HD 141569 using the Magellan adaptive optics system with the Clio2 1 - 5 $\mu$m camera, offering a glimpse of a complex system thought to be in a short evolutionary phase between…

The rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs), $R_\text{TDE}$, is predicted to depend on stellar conditions near the super-massive black hole (SMBH), which are on difficult-to-measure sub-parsec scales. We test whether $R_\text{TDE}$ depends…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Or Graur , K. Decker French , H. Jabran Zahid , James Guillochon , Kaisey S. Mandel , Katie Auchettl , Ann I. Zabludoff

Tidal stellar disruptions have traditionally been discussed as a probe of the single, massive black holes (MBHs) that are dormant in the nuclei of galaxies. In Chen et al. (2009), we used numerical scattering experiments to show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Xian Chen , Alberto Sesana , Piero Madau , Fukun Liu

Observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have more than doubled the number of wide debris disks orbiting Sunlike stars to include over 30 systems with R > 100 AU. Here we present new Herschel PACS and re-analyzed Spitzer MIPS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Kate Y. L. Su , Geoff Bryden , Paul M. Harvey , Joel D. Green

The evaporation of Primordial Black Hole (PBH) via Hawking radiation influences the evolution of Inter Galactic Medium by heating up the latter and consequently affects the 21cm signal originated from the neutral Hydrogen atoms. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Upala Mukhopadhyay , Debasish Majumdar , Ashadul Halder

The BL Lacertae OJ 287 is a supermassive black holes binary (SMBHB) system with complex physics of its irregular flares. During 2016 October -- 2017 April period, a surprising outburst in the X-ray, UV and optical bands was detected, while…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 Shifeng Huang , Shaoming Hu , Hongxing Yin , Xu Chen , Sofya Alexeeva , Dongyang Gao , Yunguo Jiang

A tidal disruption event (TDE) is an astronomical phenomenon in which a previously dormant black hole (BH) destroys a star passing too close to its central part. We analyzed the flaring episode detected from the TDE sources, Swift~J1644+57…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Elena Seifina , Lev Titarchuk , Enrico Virgill

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) is a highly energetic event with consequences dependent on the degree to which the star plunges inside the SMBH's tidal sphere. We introduce a new analytic model for tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Nicholas Stone , Re'em Sari , Abraham Loeb

Tidal disruption events occur when stars are ripped apart by massive black holes, and result in highly luminous, multi-wavelength flares. Optical/UV observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) contradict simple models of TDE emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-27 Elad Steinberg , Nicholas C. Stone

CSS100217 is considered a peculiar tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate occurring in an active galactic nucleus (AGN). Unlike typical TDEs, where the post-flare luminosity is equal to that pre-flare, CSS100217 decayed to $\sim$ 0.4…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Ying Gu , Xiao Li , Xing-Qian Cheng , Dou-Dou Wang , Xue-Guang Zhang , En-Wei Liang

Results are presented from a time--dependent, numerical investigation of spherical accretion onto black holes, within the framework of relativistic radiation hydrodynamics. We have studied the stability of self--consistent, stationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Luca Zampieri , John C. Miller , Roberto Turolla

We present results from two-dimensional, general relativistic, viscous, radiation hydrodynamic numerical simulations of Shakura-Sunyaev thin disks accreting onto stellar mass Schwarzschild black holes. We consider cases on both the gas- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 P. Chris Fragile , Sarina M. Etheridge , Peter Anninos , Bhupendra Mishra , Wlodek Kluzniak

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In TDEs it is expected that the orbital angular momentum of the disrupted star is generally misaligned with the SMBH spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Jin-Hong Chen , Lixin Dai , Kan Cheuk Kwan , Tom Man Kwan , Zijian Zhang

We report the discovery by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) of a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16axa at $z=0.108$, and present its broadband photometric and spectroscopic evolution from 3 months of follow-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 T. Hung , S. Gezari , N. Blagorodnova , N. Roth , S. B. Cenko , S. R. Kulkarni , A. Horesh , I. Arcavi , C. McCully , Lin Yan , R. Lunnan , C. Fremling , Y. Cao , P. E. Nugent , P. Wozniak

In this Letter, we report the detection of soft X-ray time lags-i.e. variability in the softer photons lagging behind that in the harder photons-in seven XMM-Newton observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT2021ehb. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenjie Zhang

We have modeled the time-variable profiles of the Halpha emission line from the non-axisymmetric disk and debris tail created in the tidal disruption of a solar-type star by a million solar mass black hole. Two tidal disruption event…

Using a suite of fully relativistic hydrodynamic simulations applied to main-sequence stars with realistic internal density profiles, we examine full and partial tidal disruptions across a wide range of black hole mass ($10^{5}\leq M_{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

In this work, we study some characteristics and gravitational signatures of the Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a Hernquist dark matter halo (SBH-HDM). We determine the black hole's remnant radius and mass, which provide useful…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Luis M. Nieto , Farokhnaz Hosseinifar , Kuantay Boshkayev , Soroush Zare , Hassan Hassanabadi

We report on simulations in general relativity of magnetized disks onto black hole binaries. We vary the binary mass ratio from 1:1 to 1:10 and evolve the systems when they orbit near the binary-disk decoupling radius. We compare (surface)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Roman Gold , Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro , Harald P. Pfeiffer

We present Herschel Space Observatory PACS spectra of T Tauri stars, in which we detect amorphous and crystalline water ice features. Using irradiated accretion disk models, we determine the disk structure and ice abundance in each of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. K. McClure , C. Espaillat , N. Calvet , E. Bergin , P. D'Alessio , D. M. Watson , P. Manoj , B. Sargent , L. I. Cleeves