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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

During a tidal disruption event (TDE) the stream debris inherits the magnetic field of the star. As the stream stretches, the magnetic field evolves and can eventually become dynamically important. We study this effect by means of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Simona Pacuraru , Clément Bonnerot , Martin E. Pessah

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

The disruption of stars by supermassive black holes has been linked to more than a dozen flares in the cores of galaxies out to redshift $z \sim 0.4$. Modeling these flares properly requires a prediction of the rate of mass return to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Stars and gaseous planets are magnetised objects but the influence of magnetic fields on their tidal responses and dissipation rates has not been well explored. We present the first exploratory nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Aurélie Astoul , Adrian J. Barker

When a star approaches a black hole closely, it may be pulled apart by gravitational forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The flares produced by TDEs are unique tracers of otherwise quiescent supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-17 Felipe G. Goicovic , Volker Springel , Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Ruediger Pakmor

Stars grazing supermassive black holes on bound orbits may produce periodic flares over many passages, known as repeating partial tidal disruption events (TDEs). Here, we present 3D hydrodynamic simulations of sun-like stars over multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Chang Liu , Ricardo Yarza , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Stellar magnetism plays an important role in stellar evolution theory. Approximatively 10% of observed main sequence (MS) and pre-main-sequence (PMS) radiative stars exhibit surface magnetic fields above the detection limit, raising the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Jérémie Vidal , David Cébron , Nathanaël Schaeffer , Rainer Hollerbach

This is the second in a series of papers presenting the results of fully general relativistic simulations of stellar tidal disruptions in which the stars' initial states are realistic main-sequence models. We consider eight different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-14 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott Noble

This is the second in a series of papers presenting the results of fully general relativistic simulations of stellar tidal disruptions in which the stars' initial states are realistic main-sequence models. In the first paper (Paper I), we…

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

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close enough to supermassive black holes to be torn apart by tidal forces. Traditionally, these events are studied with computationally intensive hydrodynamical simulations. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Zihan Zhou , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Irvin Martínez-Rodríguez , Jingping Li

Fragmentation of highly differentially rotating massive stars that undergo collapse has been suggested as a possible channel for binary black hole formation. Such a scenario could explain the formation of the new population of massive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-09 Lunan Sun , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

It has been suggested that star-forming galaxies may host a substantial, dark reservoir of gas in the form of planetary-mass molecular clouds that are so cold that $\text{H}_{2}$ can condense. Here we investigate the process of tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Arthur G. Suvorov , Mark A. Walker

We conduct a series of magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) disturbed by exploding stars. Each star deposits a randomly oriented, dipolar magnetic field into ISM. The simulations are performed in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 K. Kowalik , M. Hanasz

In the centers of dense star clusters, close encounters between stars and compact objects are likely to occur. We study tidal disruption events of main-sequence (MS) stars by stellar-mass black holes (termed $\mu$TDEs), which can shed light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-08 Pavan Vynatheya , Taeho Ryu , Ruediger Pakmor , Selma E. de Mink , Hagai B. Perets

Stars approaching supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centers of galaxies can be torn apart by strong tidal forces. We study the physics of tidal disruption by a binary SMBH as a function of the binary mass ratio $q = M_2 / M_1$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Siva Darbha , Eric R. Coughlin , Daniel Kasen , Eliot Quataert

Recent cosmological hydrodynamic simulations have suggested that the first stars in the universe often form as binary or multiple systems. However, previous studies typically overlooked the potential influence of magnetic fields during this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-27 Kenji Eric Sadanari , Kazuyuki Omukai , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kengo Tomida

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole and gets torn apart by its gravitational tidal field. After the disruption, the stellar debris form an expanding gaseous stream. The morphology…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Andrea Sacchi , Giuseppe Lodato , Claudia Toci , Valentina Motta

Most massive galaxies are thought to contain a supermassive black hole in their centre surrounded by a tenuous gas environment, leading to no significant emission. In these quiescent galaxies, tidal disruption events represent a powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-07 Clément Bonnerot , Elena M. Rossi , Giuseppe Lodato

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of primordial star formation suggest that the gas within the first star-forming halos is turbulent. This has strong implications on the subsequent evolution, in particular on the generation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sharanya Sur , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Robi Banerjee , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen
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