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The discovery of jets from tidal disruption events (TDEs) rejuvenated the old field of relativistic jets powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes. In this Chapter, we first review the extensive multi-wavelength observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Fabio De Colle , Wenbin Lu

Flat radio spectra of compact jets launched by both supermassive and stellar-mass black holes are explained by an interplay of self-absorbed synchrotron emission up to some distance along the jet and optically thin synchrotron at larger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Callan M. Wood , Francesco Carotenuto

Super-Eddington accretion discs with 3 and 15 dot M_E around black holes with mass 10 M_sun are examined by two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical calculations extending from the inner disc edge to 5*10^4 r_g and lasting up to \sim 10^6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Okuda , V. Teresi , E. Toscano , D. Molteni

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

The transient Swift J1644+57 is believed to have been produced by an unlucky star wandering too close to a supermassive black hole (BH) leading to a tidal disruption event. This unusual flare displayed highly super-Eddington X-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Luke Zoltan Kelley , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Ramesh Narayan

We present continued multi-frequency radio observations of the relativistic tidal disruption event Sw1644+57 extending to dt~600 d. The data were obtained with the JVLA and AMI Large Array. We combine these data with public Swift/XRT and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 B. A. Zauderer , E. Berger , R. Margutti , G. G. Pooley , R. Sari , A. M. Soderberg , A. Brunthaler , M. F. Bietenholz

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In TDEs it is expected that the orbital angular momentum of the disrupted star is generally misaligned with the SMBH spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Jin-Hong Chen , Lixin Dai , Kan Cheuk Kwan , Tom Man Kwan , Zijian Zhang

AT 2022cmc is a recently documented tidal disruption event (TDE) that exhibits a luminous jet, accompanied by fast-declining X-ray and long-lasting radio/millimeter emission. Motivated by the distinct spectral and temporal signatures…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Chengchao Yuan , B. Theodore Zhang , Walter Winter , Kohta Murase

We report a multiwavelength (X-ray, ultraviolet/optical/infrared, radio) analysis of the relativistic tidal disruption event candidate Sw J2058+05 from 3 months to 3 yr post-discovery in order to study its properties and compare its…

The emission processes responsible for the observed X-rays from radio jets are commonly believed to be non-thermal, but in any particular case, it is unclear if synchrotron emission or one or more varieties of inverse Compton emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. E. Harris , H. Krawczynski

X-ray and $\gamma$-ray observations by the Swift satellite revealed that a fraction of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have relativistic jets. Jetted TDEs have been considered as potential sources of very high-energy cosmic-rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-03 Nicholas Senno , Kohta Murase , Peter Meszaros

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are luminous black hole (BH) transient sources, which are detected mainly in X-ray and optical bands. It is generally believed that the X-ray emission in TDEs is produced by an accretion disc formed as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-06 Erlin Qiao , Yongxin Wu , Yiyang Lin , Meng Guo , Jifeng Liu , Chenlei Guo , Chichuan Jin , Ning Jiang

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

Active galactic nuclei (AGN), powered by long-term accretion onto central supermassive black holes, produce relativistic jets with lifetimes of greater than one million yr that preclude observations at birth. Transient accretion onto a…

The first-known tidal disruption event (TDE) with strong evidence for a relativistic jet -- based on extensive multi-wavelength campaigns -- is Swift J1644+5734. In order to directly measure the apparent speed of the radio jet, we performed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 J. Yang , Z. Paragi , A. J. van der Horst , L. I. Gurvits , R. M. Campbell , D. Giannios , T. An , S. Komossa

Despite the fact that kpc-scale inverse-Compton (iC) scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons into the X-ray band is mandated, proof of detection in resolved quasar jets is often insecure. High redshift provides favourable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , H. L. Marshall , D. A. Schwartz , A. Siemiginowska , J. F. C. Wardle

For the majority of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates, the observed energy in the optical/near-UV bands is of order 10^{51} erg. We show that this observed energy is smaller than the minimum bolometric energy for the radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar

We present radio observations of the tidal disruption event candidate (TDE) XMMSL1 J0740$-$85 spanning 592 to 875 d post X-ray discovery. We detect radio emission that fades from an initial peak flux density at 1.6 GHz of $1.19\pm 0.06$ mJy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 K. D. Alexander , M. H. Wieringa , E. Berger , R. D. Saxton , S. Komossa

The tidal disruption event by a supermassive black hole in Swift J1644+57 can trigger limit-cycle oscillations between a supercritically accreting X-ray bright state and a subcritically accreting X-ray dim state. Time evolution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Tomohisa Kawashima , Ken Ohsuga , Ryuichi Usui , Nobuyuki Kawai , Hitoshi Negoro , Ryoji Matsumoto

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