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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is disrupted by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, and these events produce bright multi-wavelength flares. Polarimetric measurements of TDEs allow us to disentangle the geometry…

A star coming too close to a supermassive black hole gets disrupted by the tidal force of the compact object in a tidal disruption event, or TDE. Following this encounter, the debris evolves into an elongated stream, half of which coming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu

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

When a star gets tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole, its magnetic field is expected to pervade its debris. In this paper, we study this process via smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the disruption and early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Clément Bonnerot , Daniel J. Price , Giuseppe Lodato , Elena M. Rossi

About a hundred tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been observed and they exhibit a wide range of emission properties both at peak and over their lifetimes. Some TDEs peak predominantly at X-ray energies while others radiate chiefly at UV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Lars Lund Thomsen , Tom Kwan , Lixin Dai , Samantha Wu , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

When a star passes through the tidal disruption radius of a massive black hole (BH), it can be torn apart by the tidal force of the BH, known as the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). Since the observed UV/optical luminosity significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Hengxiao Guo , Jingbo Sun , Shuang-Liang Li , Yan-Fei Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Defu Bu , Ning Jiang , Yanan Wang , Yuhan Yao , Rongfeng Shen , Minfeng Gu , Mouyuan Sun

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are believed to be an ideal laboratory for studying the evolution of accretion flow around a supermassive black hole (BH). In general, the mass feeding rate to the BH is suggested to be super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Chenlei Guo , Erlin Qiao

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

Stars that approach a supermassive black hole (SMBH) too closely can be disrupted by the tidal gravitational field of the SMBH. The resulting debris forms a tidal stream orbiting the SMBH which can collide with itself due to relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Joseph Rossi , Juan Servin , Michael Kesden

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

Wind is a key mechanism for supermassive black hole (SMBH) feedback to their host galaxies. In tidal disruption events (TDEs), black holes spend most of their time accreting at highly sub-Eddington rates, implying that feedback from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Mingjun Liu , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Jiaqi Li , Huaqing Cheng , Qinyu Wu , Wenjie Zhang , B. F. Liu

Extreme tidal disruption events (eTDEs), which occur when a star passes very close to a supermassive black hole, may provide a way to observe a long-sought general relativistic effect: orbits that wind several times around a black hole and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran

Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes in galactic centers (TDEs) are now being actively studied both theoretically and observationally. They are observed throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to gamma-rays. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Pavel Abolmasov , Omer Bromberg , Amir Levinson , Ehud Nakar

When a star comes too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event, or TDE. Half of the elongated stream of debris comes back to the stellar pericenter where relativistic apsidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu , Philip F. Hopkins

In classic time-dependent 1D accretion disk models, the inner radiation pressure dominated regime is viscously unstable. However, late-time observations of accretion disks formed in tidal disruption events (TDEs) do not exhibit evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Yael Alush , Nicholas C. Stone

We perform hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical general relativistic simulations of a tidal disruption of a $0.1\,M_\odot$ red dwarf approaching a $10^5\,M_\odot$ non-rotating massive black hole on a close (impact parameter $\beta=10$)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 A. Sadowski , E. Tejeda , E. Gafton , S. Rosswog , D. Abarca

Geometrically thick disks may form after tidal disruption events, and rapid accretion may lead to short flares followed by long-term, lower-level emission. Using a novel accretion disk code which relies primarily on global conservation laws…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Ulmer

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 tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole, and the subsequent accretion of the disrupted debris by that black hole, offers a direct means to study the inner regions of otherwise-quiescent galaxies. These tidal disruption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-01 Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

A tidal disruption event (TDE) may occur when a star is torn apart by the tidal force of a black hole (BH). Eventually, an accretion disc is thought to form out of stellar debris falling back towards the BH. If the star's orbital angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Z. Cao , P. G. Jonker , D. R. Pasham , S. Wen , N. C. Stone , A. I. Zabludoff