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A nuclear transient detected in a post-starburst galaxy or other quiescent galaxy with strong Balmer absorption is likely to be a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). Identifying such galaxies within the planned survey footprint of the Large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-29 K. Decker French , Ann I. Zabludoff

We study the properties of tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies in the context of a catalog of ~500,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We explore whether selection effects can account for the overrepresentation of TDEs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-16 Jamie Law-Smith , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Sara L. Ellison , Ryan J. Foley

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

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

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

The concept of stars being tidally ripped apart and consumed by a massive black hole (MBH) lurking in the center of a galaxy first captivated theorists in the late 1970's. The observational evidence for these rare but illuminating phenomena…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-15 Suvi Gezari

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are transient flares produced when a star is ripped apart by the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). We have observed a transient source in the western nucleus of the merging galaxy pair…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can be observed when stars get too close to supermassive black holes and are torn apart and accreted. The delay time distribution of TDEs, or rate of TDEs as a function of time since a burst of star formation,…

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

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are routinely observed in quiescent galaxies, as stars from the nuclear star cluster are scattered into the loss cone of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). TDEs are also expected to occur in Active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 Chaitanya Prasad , Yihan Wang , Rosalba Perna , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are a class of transients that occur when a star is destroyed by the tides of a massive black hole (MBH). Their rates encode valuable MBH demographic information, but this can only be extracted if accurate TDE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Christian H. Hannah , Nicholas C. Stone , Anil C. Seth , Sjoert van Velzen

Recent studies of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have revealed unexpected correlations between the TDE rate and the large-scale properties of the host galaxies. In this review, we present the host galaxy properties of all TDE candidates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-23 K. Decker French , Thomas Wevers , Jamie Law-Smith , Or Graur , Ann I. Zabludoff

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), events in which a star passes very close to a supermassive black hole, are generally imagined as leading either to the star's complete disruption or to its passage directly into the black hole. In the former…

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

The tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole (MBH) is thought to produce a transient luminous event. Such tidal disruption events (TDEs) may play an important role in the detection and characterization of MBHs and probe the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Danor Aharon , Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

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

Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) probe material ejected by the disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), uniquely tracing the formation and evolution of jets and outflows, revealing details of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Kate D. Alexander , Sjoert van Velzen , Assaf Horesh , B. Ashley Zauderer

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

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

The host galaxies of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been shown to possess peculiar properties, including high central light concentrations, unusual star-formation histories, and ``green'' colors. The ubiquity of these large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-27 Erica Hammerstein , S. Bradley Cenko , Suvi Gezari , Sylvain Veilleux , Brendan O'Connor , Sjoert van Velzen , Charlotte Ward , Yuhan Yao , Matthew Graham

Recent claimed detections of tidal disruption events (TDEs) in multi-wavelength data have opened potential new windows into the evolution and properties of otherwise dormant supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centres of galaxies. At…

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