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Tidal disruption of stars in dense nuclear star clusters containing supermassive central black holes (SMBH) is modeled by high-accuracy direct N-body simulation. Stars getting too close to the SMBH are tidally disrupted and a tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Shiyan Zhong , Shuo Li , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

We have constructed self-similar models of a time-dependent accretion disk in both sub and super-Eddington phases with wind outflows for tidal disruption events (TDEs). The physical input parameters are the black hole (BH) mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-21 T. Mageshwaran , A. Mangalam

Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are a natural byproduct of galaxy mergers. Previous studies have shown that flares from stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) are modified by the presence of a secondary perturber, causing interruptions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 Angelo Ricarte , Priyamvada Natarajan , Lixin Dai , Paolo Coppi

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are powerful probes of supermassive black hole (SMBH) properties and accretion physics. The existing light curve fitting tools assume that the disrupted stars are on parabolic orbits, which may introduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-27 Shiyan Zhong , Chenxi Shang , Xiaowei Liu

We use the general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics code \verb=KORAL= to simulate the early stages of accretion disk formation resulting from the tidal disruption of a solar mass star around a super massive black hole (BH) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Brandon Curd

Among the many intriguing aspects of optically discovered tidal disruption events (TDEs) is that their temperatures are lower than expected and that the temperature does not evolve as rapidly with decreasing fallback rate as would be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Coleman Miller

We study tidal disruption and subsequent mass fallback for stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Kimitake Hayasaki , Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb

Black holes at the centre of quiescent galaxies can be switched on when they accrete gas that is gained from stellar tidal disruptions. A star approaching a black hole on a low angular momentum orbit may be ripped apart by tidal forces,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Deborah Mainetti , Sergio Campana , Monica Colpi

The evolution of an accretion disk, formed as a consequence of the disruption of a star by a black hole, is followed by solving numerically the hydrodynamic equations. The present investigation aims to study the dependence of resulting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Matias Montesinos , José A. de Freitas Pacheco

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star gets torn apart by the strong tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, which results in the formation of a debris stream that partly falls back towards the compact object. This gas moves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu

We examine the consequences of a model in which relativistic jets can be triggered in quiescent massive black holes when a geometrically thick and hot accretion disk forms as a result of the tidal disruption of a star. To estimate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Fabio De Colle , James Guillochon , Jill Naiman , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

A popular class of models for interpreting quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions from galactic nuclei (QPEs) invoke collisions between an object on an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) and an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. There…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Andrew Mummery

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), in which stars are gravitationally disrupted as they pass close to the supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, are potentially important probes of strong gravity and accretion physics. Most TDEs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-10 C. Tadhunter , R. Spence , M. Rose , J. Mullaney , P. Crowther

A star can be tidally disrupted around a massive black hole. It has been known that the debris forms a precessing stream, which may collide with itself. The stream collision is a key process determining the subsequent evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sungsoo S. Kim , Myeong-Gu Park , Hyung Mok Lee

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

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star travels too close to a supermassive black hole. In some cases, accretion of the disrupted material onto the black hole launches a relativistic jet. In this paper, we present a long term…

Stars passing too close to a super massive black hole (SMBH) can produce tidal disruption events (TDEs). Since the resulting stellar debris can produce an electromagnetic flare, TDEs are believed to probe the presence of single SMBHs in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-21 Giacomo Fragione , Nathan Leigh

The flare produced when a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole holds potential as a diagnostic of both the black hole mass and the star mass. We propose a new method to realize this potential based upon a physical model of…

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

The orbital decay and tidal disruption of a star cluster in a galaxy is studied in an analytical manner. Owing to dynamical friction, the star cluster spirals in toward the center of the galaxy. Simultaneously, the galactic tidal field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Mouri , Y. Taniguchi

Tidal disruption events, which occur when a star is shredded by the tidal field of a supermassive black hole, provide a means of fueling black hole accretion. Here we show, using a combination of three body orbit integrations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Eric R. Coughlin , Philip J. Armitage