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We report simulations regarding tidal disruption clouds orbiting spherically symmetric compact boson stars in two different regimes. First we consider clouds in three different bound orbits close to the boson star and analyze the mechanisms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-18 Matheus C. Teodoro , Lucas G. Collodel , Jutta Kunz

Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, exhibits frequent short-duration flares with luminosity greater than 1e34 erg/s across multiple wavelengths. The origin of the flares is still unknown. We revisited the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Wen-Han Zhou , Yun Zhang , Jiamu Huang , Douglas N. C. Lin

Tidal disruption events occur when a star is disrupted by a supermassive black hole, resulting in an elongated stream of gas that partly falls back to the pericenter. Due to apsidal precession, the returning stream may collide with itself,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 Taj Jankovič , Clément Bonnerot , Andreja Gomboc

Black holes (BHs) and wormholes (WHs) are characterized by distinct spacetime geometries, whose differences become pronounced close to the central objects. A useful way to probe such differences is via the dynamics of stellar tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Pritam Banerjee , Kowsona Chakraborty , Niles Mondal , Tapobrata Sarkar

The tidal field of a black hole can turn a star into a gas stream whose orbit can precess, especially if the a black hole is rapidly spinning. In this work, we investigate the impact of precession on the light curves of tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Diego Calderón , Ondřej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Paul C. Duffell , Stephan Rosswog

Due to the tidal forces that a black hole can produce, certain types of compact objects may undergo disruption as they approach the black hole. This disruption point is known as the Roche limit (or Roche radius). In this work, we studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Marcos V. de S. Silva

We present late-time multi-wavelength observations of Swift J1644+57, suggested to be a relativistic tidal disruption flare (TDF). Our observations extend to >4 years from discovery, and show that 1.4 years after outburst the relativistic…

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

We study the circularization of tidally disrupted stars on bound orbits around spinning supermassive black holes by performing three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations with Post-Newtonian corrections. Our simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-09 Kimitake Hayasaki , Nicholas C. Stone , Abraham Loeb

When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH), the gas debris is stretched into an elongated stream. The longitudinal motion of the stream follows geodesics in the Kerr spacetime and the evolution in the transverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-09 Gauri Batra , Wenbin Lu , Clément Bonnerot , E. Sterl Phinney

Gamma-ray observations of a stellar tidal disruption event (TDE) detected by the Swift satellite and follow up observations in radio, mm, infrared and x-ray bands have provided a rich data set to study accretion onto massive blackholes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-17 P. Kumar , R. Barniol Duran , Z. Bosnjak , T. Piran

To complement hydrodynamic studies of the tidal disruption of the star by a massive black hole, we present the study of stellar luminosity and its variations, produced by the strong gravitational field of the black hole during a close…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andreja Gomboc , Andrej Cadez

A number of candidate repeating partial tidal disruption events (rpTDEs) have been reported in recent years. If these events are confirmed, the high fraction of observed rpTDEs among all tidal disruption events (TDEs) is in tension with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Zhen Pan , Dong Lai

A star approaching a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be torn apart in a tidal disruption event (TDE). We examine ultra-deep TDEs, a new regime in which the disrupted debris approaches close to the black hole's Schwarzschild radius, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Siva Darbha , Eric R. Coughlin , Daniel Kasen , Chris Nixon

The disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is calculated numerically with a modified version of Aarseth's NBODY6 code. The initial stellar distribution around the SMBH follows a S\'{e}rsic n=4 profile representing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Brockamp , H. Baumgardt , P. Kroupa

We study the fate of internal gravity waves, which are excited by tidal forcing by a short-period planet at the interface of convection and radiation zones, approaching the centre of a solar-type star. We study at what amplitude these wave…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. J. Barker , G. I. Ogilvie

We discuss the results of 3D simulations of tidal disruptions of white dwarfs by moderate-mass black holes as they may exist in the cores of globular clusters or dwarf galaxies. Our simulations follow self-consistently the hydrodynamic and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 S. Rosswog , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , W. R. Hix

We examine the tidal disruption event scenario to explain Sw 1644+57, a powerful and persistent X-ray source which suddenly became active as GRB 110328A. The precise localization at the center of a z=0.35 galaxy argues for activity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 J. K. Cannizzo , E. Troja , G. Lodato

We conduct a systematic tidal disruption event (TDE) demographics analysis using the largest sample of optically selected TDEs. A flux-limited, spectroscopically complete sample of 33 TDEs is constructed using the Zwicky Transient Facility…

Stars can be tidally destroyed or swallowed by supermassive black hole binaries. Using a large number of accurate few-body simulations, we investigate the enhancement and suppression of full and partial disruption and direct capture events…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Taeho Ryu , Alessandro A. Trani , Nathan W. C. Leigh