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Recent studies suggest that tidal disruption events (TDEs) with off-axis jets may manifest as optically overluminous events. To search for jet signatures at late times, we conducted radio observations of eight such optically overluminous…

We present the optical light curves of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2023clx in the declining phase, observed with Mephisto. Combining our light curve with the ASAS-SN and ATLAS data in the rising phase, and fitting the composite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Shiyan Zhong , Xian Xu , Xinlei Chen , Helong Guo , Yuan Fang , Guowang Du , Xiangkun Liu , Xiaowei Liu

We report an observational estimate of the rate of stellar tidal disruption flares (TDFs), based on our (successful) search for these events in archival Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) multi-epoch imaging data. Our pipeline took advantage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-30 Sjoert van Velzen , Glennys R. Farrar

We report the discovery of a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) candidate occurring in the Active Galactic Nucleus SDSS J022700.77-042020.6. A sudden increase in flux of J0227-0420 during the second half of 2009 is clearly shown in the long-term…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-18 Zhu Liu , Dongyue Li , He-Yang Liu , Youjun Lu , Weimin Yuan , Liming Dou , Rong-Feng Shen

The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2022cmc represents the fourth known example of a relativistic jet produced by the tidal disruption of a stray star providing a unique probe of the formation and evolution of relativistic jets in otherwise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 T. Eftekhari , A. Tchekhovskoy , K. D. Alexander , E. Berger , R. Chornock , T. Laskar , R. Margutti , Y. Yao , Y. Cendes , S. Gomez , A. Hajela , D. R. Pasham

We present detailed radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2019dsg, obtained with the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and spanning $55-560$ days post-disruption. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 Y. Cendes , K. D. Alexander , E. Berger , T. Eftekhari , P. K. G. Williams , R. Chornock

Tidal disruption events occur when stars are ripped apart by massive black holes, and result in highly luminous, multi-wavelength flares. Optical/UV observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) contradict simple models of TDE emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-27 Elad Steinberg , Nicholas C. Stone

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

We present results of follow-up optical spectroscopic observations of seven rare, extreme coronal line emitting galaxies reported by Wang et al. (2012) with Multi-Mirror Telescope (MMT). Large variations in coronal lines are found in four…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chenwei Yang , Tinggui Wang , Gary Ferland , Weimin Yuan , Hongyan Zhou , Peng Jiang

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

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star gets torn apart by a supermassive black hole as it crosses its tidal radius. We present late-time optical and X-ray observations of the nuclear transient AT2019qiz, which showed the typical…

We present a systematic search for tidal disruption events (TDEs) using radio data from the Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) Pilot Survey conducted using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). Historically, TDEs have…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star crosses the tidal radius of a black hole (BH) and is ripped apart, providing a powerful way to probe dormant BHs over a wide mass range. In this study, we present our late-time observations…

Off-nuclear tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a rare probe of massive black holes (MBHs) outside galactic nuclei. Only a handful are known, including five X-ray-selected candidates and two optically selected events. We present…

Gamma-ray observations of a stellar tidal disruption event (TDE) detected by the Swift satellite and follow up observations in radio, mm, infrared and x-ray bands have provided a rich data set to study accretion onto massive blackholes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-17 P. Kumar , R. Barniol Duran , Z. Bosnjak , T. Piran

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

PS16dtm was classified as a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) in a dwarf Seyfert 1 galaxy with low-mass black hole ($\sim10^6M\odot$) and has presented various intriguing photometric and spectra characteristics. Using the archival WISE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-29 Ning Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Lin Yan , Ting Xiao , Chenwei Yang , Liming Dou , Huiyuan Wang , Roc M. Cutri , Amy Mainzer

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

Three recent global simulations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have produced, using different numerical techniques and parameters, very similar pictures of their dynamics. In typical TDEs, after the star is disrupted by a supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Taeho Ryu