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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are valuable probes of the demographics of supermassive black holes as well as the dynamics and population of stars in the centers of galaxies. In this Letter, we focus on studying how the debris disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Thomas Hong Tsun Wong , Hugo Pfister , Lixin Dai

Observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) on a timescale of years after the main flare show evidence of continued activity in the form of optical/UV emission, quasi-periodic eruptions, and delayed radio flares. Motivated by this, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-09 Anthony L. Piro , Brenna Mockler

After the destruction of the star during a tidal disruption event (TDE), the cataclysmic encounter between a star and the supermassive black hole (SMBH) of a galaxy, approximately half of the original stellar debris falls back onto the hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-15 Eric R. Coughlin , Mitchell C. Begelman

Wind is a key mechanism for supermassive black hole (SMBH) feedback to their host galaxies. In tidal disruption events (TDEs), black holes spend most of their time accreting at highly sub-Eddington rates, implying that feedback from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Mingjun Liu , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Jiaqi Li , Huaqing Cheng , Qinyu Wu , Wenjie Zhang , B. F. Liu

Stars that orbit too close to a black hole can be ripped apart by strong tides, producing a type of luminous transient event called a ``tidal disruption event" (TDE). Tidal disruption events of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Brenna Mockler , Erica Hammerstein , Eric R. Coughlin , Matt Nicholl

A bright flare from a galactic nucleus followed at late times by a $t^{-5/3}$ decay in luminosity is often considered the signature of the complete tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole. The flare and power-law decay are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Christopher Evans , Pablo Laguna , Michael Eracleous

Accretion of debris seems to be the natural mechanism to power the radiation emitted during a tidal disruption event (TDE), in which a supermassive black hole tears apart a star. However, this requires the prompt formation of a compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-23 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott Noble , Mark Avara

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) offer a unique opportunity to study a single super-massive black hole (SMBH) under feeding conditions that change over timescales of days or months. However, the primary mechanism for generating luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Brenna Mockler , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes close to a massive black hole, so that the tidal forces of the black hole exceed the binding energy of a star and cause it to be ripped apart. Part of the matter will fall onto the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret , Olivier Godet , Maitrayee Gupta , Dacheng Lin , Erwan Quintin , Hugo Tranin

Three recent global simulations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have produced, using different numerical techniques and parameters, very similar pictures of their dynamics. In typical TDEs, after the star is disrupted by a supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Taeho Ryu

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can uncover the quiescent black holes (BHs) at the center of galaxies and also offer a promising method to study them. In a partial TDE (PTDE), the BH's tidal force cannot fully disrupt the star, so the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Jin-Hong Chen , Rong-Feng Shen

The formation of a compact accretion disk following a tidal disruption event (TDE) requires that the shocked stellar debris cool efficiently as it settles toward the black hole. While recent simulations suggest that stream dissipation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Semih Tuna , Brian D. Metzger , Yan-Fei Jiang , Andrea Antoni

Rates of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) due to two-body relaxation are calculated using a large galaxy sample (N=146) in order to explore the sensitivity of the TDE rates to observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 Nicholas C. Stone , Brian D. Metzger

When a star passes close to a supermassive black hole (BH), the BH's tidal forces rip it apart into a thin stream, leading to a tidal disruption event (TDE). In this work, we study the post-disruption phase of TDEs in general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Zachary L. Andalman , Matthew T. P. Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eric R. Coughlin , Nicholas Stone

Recently, Allen et al. measured a tight correlation between the Bondi accretion rates and jet powers of the nuclei of nearby X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies. We employ two models of jet powering to understand the above correlation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower , Arif Babul , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

A tidal disruption event (TDE) may occur when a star is torn apart by the tidal force of a black hole (BH). Eventually, an accretion disc is thought to form out of stellar debris falling back towards the BH. If the star's orbital angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Z. Cao , P. G. Jonker , D. R. Pasham , S. Wen , N. C. Stone , A. I. Zabludoff

Stars in the immediate vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be ripped apart by the tidal forces of the black hole. The subsequent accretion of the stellar material causes a spectacular flare of electromagnetic radiation. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-06 S. Komossa

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars are destroyed by supermassive black holes and are among the brightest nuclear transients. It has been thought that strong relativistic effects rapidly dissipate orbital energy and produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Ho-Sang Chan , Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran

Our current understanding of the curved space-time around supermassive black holes is based on actively accreting black holes, which make up only ten per cent or less of the overall population. X-ray observations of that small fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-23 Erin Kara , Jon M. Miller , Chris Reynolds , Lixin Dai

Aims. A simplified model of jet power from active galactic nuclei is proposed in which the relationship between jet power and disk luminosity is discussed by combining disk accretion with two mechanisms of extracting energy magnetically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Li , Ding-Xiong Wang , Zhao-Ming Gan