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We explore the galaxy structure of four tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies on 30 pc to kpc scales using HST WFC3 multi-band imaging. The star formation histories of these hosts are diverse, including one post-starburst galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 K. Decker French , Iair Arcavi , Ann I. Zabludoff , Nicholas Stone , Daichi Hiramatsu , Sjoert van Velzen , Curtis McCully , Ning Jiang

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are unique probes of evolving accretion in supermassive black holes. Recent models of TDE disks show that they undergo brief thermal instabilities with temporal super-Eddington accretion at late times, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Daichi Tsuna , V. Ashley Villar , Anthony L. Piro , Samantha C. Wu

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole leads to a short-lived thermal flare. Despite extensive searches, radio follow-up observations of known thermal stellar tidal disruption flares (TDFs) have not yet produced a…

One of the main challenges of current tidal disruption events (TDEs) studies is that emission arising from AGN activity may potentially mimic the expected X-ray emission of a TDE. Here we compare the X-ray properties of TDEs and AGN to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-27 Katie Auchettl , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , James Guillochon

Observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) on a timescale of years after the main flare show evidence of continued activity in the form of optical/UV emission, quasi-periodic eruptions, and delayed radio flares. Motivated by this, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-09 Anthony L. Piro , Brenna Mockler

We report the discovery by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) of a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16axa at $z=0.108$, and present its broadband photometric and spectroscopic evolution from 3 months of follow-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 T. Hung , S. Gezari , N. Blagorodnova , N. Roth , S. B. Cenko , S. R. Kulkarni , A. Horesh , I. Arcavi , C. McCully , Lin Yan , R. Lunnan , C. Fremling , Y. Cao , P. E. Nugent , P. Wozniak

We present X-ray, UV, optical, and radio observations of the nearby ($\approx78$ Mpc) tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2021ehb/ZTF21aanxhjv during its first 430 days of evolution. AT2021ehb occurs in the nucleus of a galaxy hosting a $\approx…

We report a candidate repeating tidal disruption event (TDE), AT2022sxl, found from large-field optical survey data. Two flares with a separation time of $\sim$7.2\,yr between the two optical peaks are observed. Related mid-infrared (MIR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-14 Shunhao Ji , Zhongxiang Wang , Litao Zhu , Stefan Geier , Alok C. Gupta

We present and analyse a new tidal disruption event (TDE), AT2017eqx at redshift z=0.1089, discovered by Pan-STARRS and ATLAS. The position of the transient is consistent with the nucleus of its host galaxy; it peaks at a luminosity of $L…

We present continued radio and X-ray observations of the previously relativistic tidal disruption event (TDE) Swift J164449.3+573451 (\sw) extending to about 9.4 years post disruption, as part of ongoing campaigns with the Jansky Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Yvette Cendes , Tarraneh Eftekhari , Edo Berger , Emil Polisensky

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…

Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) - when a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) - provide a unique laboratory for studying outflows in the vicinity of SMBHs and their connection to accretion onto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Assaf Horesh , S. Bradley Cenko , Iair Arcavi

We report here radio follow-up observations of the optical Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) AT 2019azh. Previously reported X-ray observations of this TDE showed variability at early times and a dramatic increase in luminosity, by a factor of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 I. Sfaradi , A. Horesh , R. Fender , D. A. Green , D. R. A. Williams , J. Bright , S. Schulze

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been overlooked for a long time but tentatively been investigated recently. We report the discovery of a long-lasting luminous mid-infrared (mid-IR) flare in PS1-10adi,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Ning Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Guobin Mou , Hui Liu , Liming Dou , Zhenfeng Sheng , Yibo Wang

We present radio observations of 23 optically discovered tidal disruption events (TDEs) on timescales of 500-3200 days post discovery. We detect nine new TDEs that did not have detectable radio emission at earlier times, indicating a…

We report the detection and characterization of ultrafast outflows (UFOs) in the X-ray spectra of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2020afhd, based on observations from NICER, Swift, and XMM. Prominent blueshifted absorption features were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Zikun Lin , Yanan Wang , De-Fu Bu , Junjie Mao , Jifeng Liu

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

We analyse the 30 October, 2004, X1.2/SF solar event that occurred in AR 10691 (N13 W18) at around 11:44 UT. Observations at 212 and 405 GHz of the Solar Submillimeter Telescope (SST), with high time resolution (5 ms), show an intense…

We present Chandra X-ray observations of four optically-selected tidal disruption events (TDEs) obtained 4-9 years after discovery. Three sources were detected with luminosities between 9X10^40 and 3X10^42 erg/s. The spectrum of PTF09axc is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 P. G. Jonker , N. C. Stone , A. Generozov , S. van Velzen , B. Metzger

We present the first sample of tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered during the SRG all-sky survey. These 13 events were selected among X-ray transients detected in the 0<l<180 deg hemisphere by eROSITA during its second sky survey (10…