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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star orbiting a massive black hole is sufficiently close to be tidally ripped apart by the black hole. AT 2022cmc is the first relativistic TDE that was observed (and discovered) as an optically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Aleksandar Cikota , Giorgos Leloudas , Mattia Bulla , Lixin Dai , Justyn Maund , Igor Andreoni

The cooling envelope model for tidal disruption events (TDE) postulates that while the stellar debris streams rapidly dissipate their bulk kinetic energy (``circularize"), this does not necessarily imply rapid feeding of the supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Nikhil Sarin , Brian D. Metzger

A tidal disruption event (TDE) ensues when a star passes too close to the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a galactic center and is ripped apart by the tidal field of the SMBH. The gaseous debris produced in a TDE can power a bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Nicholas C. Stone , Michael Kesden , Roseanne M. Cheng , Sjoert van Velzen

Delayed radio emission has been associated with a growing proportion of tidal disruption events (TDEs). For many events, the radio synchrotron emission is inferred to originate from the interaction of mildly-relativistic outflows, launched…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Samantha C. Wu , Daichi Tsuna , Brenna Mockler , Anthony L. Piro

XMM-Newton's large field of view and excellent sensitivity have resulted in hundreds of thousands of serendipitous X-ray detections. Whilst their spectra have been widely exploited, their variable nature has been little studied. Part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-01 Natalie A. Webb

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

A black hole (BH) can tear apart a star that ventures within its tidal radius, producing a luminous flare as the stellar debris falls back, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE). While TDEs in quiescent galaxies are relatively well…

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are processes where stars are torn apart by the strong gravitational force near to a massive or supermassive black hole. If a jet is launched in such a process, particle acceleration may take place in internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-15 Daniel Biehl , Denise Boncioli , Cecilia Lunardini , Walter Winter

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…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is gravitationally disrupted by the tidal field of a supermassive black hole during a close encounter. Radio emission has recently been detected in TDEs and is commonly attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Yuri Sato , Mukul Bhattacharya , Jose Carpio , Jewel Capili , Kohta Murase

Advances in time domain astronomy have produced a growing population of flares from galactic nuclei, including both tidal disruption events (TDEs) and flares in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Because TDEs are uncommon and AGN variability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-30 Karamveer Kaur , Nicholas C. Stone

The luminosity function of active galactic nuclei has been measured down to luminosities ~10^{42} erg/s in the soft and hard X-rays. Some fraction of this activity is associated with the accretion of the material liberated by the tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Milos Milosavljevic , David Merritt , Luis C. Ho

Relativistic jets can form from at least some tidal disruption events (TDEs) of (sub-)stellar objects around supermassive black holes. We detect the millimeter (MM) emission of IGR J12580+0134 --- the nearest TDE known in the galaxy NGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 Qiang Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang , Wei-Hua Lei , He Gao , Bing Zhang

In the manuscript, effects of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are estimated on long-term AGN variability, to provide interesting clues to detect probable hidden TDEs in normal broad line AGN with apparent intrinsic variability which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-08 XueGuang Zhang

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

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star is destroyed by the strong tidal shear of a massive black hole (MBH). The accumulation of TDE observations over the last years has revealed that post-starburst galaxies are significantly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-15 Elisa Bortolas

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star, passing too close to a massive black hole, is ripped apart by tidal forces. A less dramatic event occurs if the star orbits just outside the tidal radius, resulting in a mild stripping of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-02 Deborah Mainetti , Sergio Campana , Monica Colpi , Giuseppe Lodato , Paolo D'Avanzo , Phil Evans , Alberto Moretti