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We compute rates of tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, using downwardly-revised black hole masses from the M-sigma relation. In galaxies with steep nuclear density profiles, which dominate the overall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jianxiang Wang , David Merritt

We present a comprehensive study of an infrared (IR) flare in the star-forming galaxy SDSS J010320.39+140152.5, which is selected from the sample of mid-IR (MIR) outbursts in nearby galaxies (MIRONG). Its MIR luminosity rose rapidly to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-29 Hui Liu , Luming Sun , Ning Jiang , Xinwen Shu , Yibo Wang , Tinggui Wang , Roc M. Cutri , Liming Dou , Fabao Zhang , Jiazheng Zhu , Zhenfeng Sheng

This work explores a scenario for micro-tidal disruption events (TDEs) triggered by close encounters between high-speed white dwarfs (WDs) and stellar-mass black holes (sBHs) in galactic centers. In this model, a WD orbiting the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Xinyu Li , Houyi Sun , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Huan Yang

We report the results of XMM-Newton observations for an especially luminous supersoft X-ray source (SSS) with bolometric luminosity of 10^39 erg/s in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. The source was detected as a SSS in 1992 and disappeared in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. K. H. Kong , R. Di Stefano

We report the discovery of a dwarf Seyfert 1 active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a candidate intermediate-mass black hole hosted by the dwarf galaxy SDSS J160531.84+174826.1 at z=0.032. A broad component of the H-alpha line with FWHM=781…

The recent discovery of three off-nuclear tidal disruption events (EP240222a, AT2024tvd, and AT2025abcr) - following the first such source, 3XMM J2150$-$05 - reveals a small but robust population of off-nuclear, or `wandering', black holes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Muryel Guolo

We have serendipitously discovered that Leoncino Dwarf, an ultra-faint, low-metallicity record-holder dwarf galaxy, may have hosted a transient source, and possibly exhibited a change in morphology, a shift in the center of brightness, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Mercedes E. Filho , J. Sánchez Almeida

(abridged) We present a dynamical analysis of the extended stellar stream encircling NGC 1097. Within a statistical framework, we model its surface brightness using mock streams as in Amorisco (2015) and deep imaging data from the CHART32…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-16 N. C. Amorisco , D. Martinez-Delgado , J. Schedler

Of the 21 known gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs, a large fraction of them display observational features that are well described by an eccentric distribution of gas. In the absence of embedded objects or additional forces, these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 David Trevascus , Daniel J. Price , Rebecca Nealon , David Liptai , Christopher J. Manser , Dimitri Veras

Since Baade's photographic study of M32 in the mid 1940s, it has been accepted as an established fact that M32 is a compact dwarf satellite of M31. The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of our investigation into the nature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 C. K. S. Young , M. J. Currie , R. J. Dickens , A. L. Luo , T. J. Zhang

The starburst/Seyfert composite galaxy IRAS 01072+4954 (z=0.0236) is an enigmatic source that combines a Seyfert~1-like X-ray emission with a starburst optical spectrum that lacks broad line emission. We performed high angular resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-16 M. Valencia-S. , A. Eckart , J. Zuther , S. Fischer , S. Smajic , C. Iserlohe , M. Garcia-Marin , L. Moser , M. Bremer , M. Vitale , .

We have carried out a systematic search for recoiling supermassive black holes (rSMBH) using the Chandra Source and SDSS Cross Matched Catalog. From the survey, we have detected a potential rSMBH, 'CXO J101527.2+625911' at z=0.3504. The CXO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-24 D. -C. Kim , Ilsang Yoon , G. C. Privon , A. S. Evans , D. Harvey , S. Stierwalt , Ji Hoon Kim

We report the discovery of a probable dwarf galaxy colliding with NGC 1232. This collision is visible only in the X-ray spectral band, and it is creating a region of shocked gas with a temperature of 5.8 MK covering an impact area 7.25 kpc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gordon P. Garmire

Radio emission from 23 tidal disruption event host galaxies were searched in the 144 MHz LOFAR-LoTSS2 images. Three host galaxies are detected with diffuse radio emission, which can be interpreted as either galactic synchrotron radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Kamakshi Kaushik , Amitesh Omar , Brijesh Kumar , Kuntal Mishra , Jagdish Joshi

We report on the optical spectroscopic observations of the host galaxy of the hyperactive repeating fast radio burst, FRB 20240114A. The host galaxy is a dwarf galaxy at a redshift of $z=0.1306\pm0.0002$. With a rest-frame coverage of…

We investigate the interaction history of the M31 sub-group of galaxies by comparing surface photometry of its two nearest satellites, M32 and NGC 205, with N-body simulations of satellite destruction. The recent discovery of a giant stream…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip I. Choi , Puragra Guhathakurta , Kathryn V. Johnston

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

Swift J1357.2-0933 is a black hole transient of particular interest due to the optical, recurrent dips found during its first two outbursts (in 2011 and 2017), with no obvious X-ray equivalent. We present fast optical photometry during its…

IGR J16320-4751 is a highly obscured HMXB source containing a very slow neutron star ($P_{spin}\sim1300$ sec) orbiting its supergiant companion star with a period of $\sim$9 days. It shows high column density ($N_{H}\sim2-5\times10^{23}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-07 Varun , Nirmal Iyer , Biswajit Paul

Swift J1357.2-0933 is one of the shortest orbital period black hole X-ray transients (BHTs). It exhibited deep optical dips together with an extremely broad H$\alpha$ line during outburst. We present 10.4-m GTC time-resolved spectroscopy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Daniel Mata Sánchez , Teo Munoz-Darias , Jorge Casares , Jesús Corral-Santana , Tariq Shahbaz