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A repeating partial tidal disruption event (rpTDE) is typically modeled as a star on a bound orbit that is partially disrupted by a massive black hole (MBH) at each pericenter passage. For disruption to occur, the pericenter distance must…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Shu Yan Lau , Ethan McKeever , Hang Yu

We investigate interactions of stellar binaries in galactic nuclear clusters with a massive black hole (MBH). We consider binaries on highly eccentric orbits around the MBH that change due to random gravitational interactions with other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Bradnick , Ilya Mandel , Yuri Levin

We examine the tidal disruption of satellite galaxies in a cosmological simulation of the formation of a disk galaxy in the $\Lambda$CDM scenario. We find that the disruption of satellite galaxies in orbits roughly coplanar with the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Amina Helmi , Julio F. Navarro , Andres Meza , Matthias Steinmetz , Vincent R. Eke

The disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole generates a sudden bright flare. Previous studies have focused on the disruption by single black holes, for which the fallback rate decays as~$\propto t^{-5/3}$. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Quentin Vigneron , Giuseppe Lodato , Alessio Guidarelli

Tidal Disruption of stars by super massive central black holes from dense star clusters is modeled by high-accuracy direct $N$-body simulation. The time evolution of the stellar tidal disruption rate, the effect of tidal disruption on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Shiyan Zhong , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

The discovery that the Galactic centre emits flares at various wavelengths represents a puzzle concerning their origin, but at the same time it is a relevant opportunity to investigate the environment of the nearest super-massive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-17 A. Cadez , U. Kostic , M. Calvani

Most stars are born in clusters and the resulting gravitational interactions between cluster members may significantly affect the evolution of circumstellar discs and therefore the formation of planets and brown dwarfs. Recent findings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-18 Ingo Thies , Pavel Kroupa , Simon P. Goodwin , Dimitrios Stamatellos , Anthony P. Whitworth

We show that gravitational floating orbits may exist for black holes with rotating hairs. These black hole hairs could originate from the superradiant growth of a light axion field around the rotating black holes. If a test particle rotates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Jun Zhang , Huan Yang

We use simulations of hydrodynamics coupled with full general relativity to investigate the gravitational waves produced by a star colliding with a massive black hole when the star's tidal disruption radius lies far outside of the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-24 William E. East

The dynamics of two massive black holes in a rotationally supported nuclear disc of 10^8 solar masses is explored using N-Body/SPH simulations. Gas and star particles are co-present in the disc. Described by a Mestel profile, the disc has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Dotti , M. Colpi , F. Haardt , L. Mayer

A tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star is destroyed by the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole, produces a stream of debris, the evolution of which ultimately determines the observational properties of the event.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon , Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage , Daniel J. Price

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

Accretion discs around black holes in X-ray binary stars are warped if the spin axis of the black hole is not perpendicular to the binary orbital plane. They can also become eccentric through an instability involving a resonance with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Barbara T. Ferreira

We propose a scenario in which massive stars form at the outer edges of an AGN accretion disc. We analyze the dynamics of a disc forming around a supermassive black hole, in which the angular momentum is transported by turbulence induced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Levin

Dense stellar clusters surround the supermassive black holes (SMBH) in galactic nuclei. Interactions within the cluster can alter the stellar orbits, occasionally driving a star into the SMBH's tidal radius where it becomes ruptured, or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Sanaea C. Rose , Brenna Mockler

We study tidal disruption events of rotating stars by a supermassive black hole in a galactic nucleus by using a smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code. We compare mass infall rates of tidal-disruption debris of a non-rotating and of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-28 Kazuki Kagaya , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Ataru Tanikawa

The anisotropic emission of gravitational waves during the merger of two supermassive black holes can result in a recoil kick of the merged remnant. We show here that eccentric nuclear disks - stellar disks of eccentric, apse-aligned orbits…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Tatsuya Akiba , Ann-Marie Madigan

We present the results of relativistic smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of tidal disruptions of stars by rotating supermassive black holes, for a wide range of impact parameters and black hole spins. For deep encounters, we find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Emanuel Gafton , Stephan Rosswog

Upon entering the tidal sphere of a supermassive black hole, a star is ripped apart by tides and transformed into a stream of debris. The ultimate fate of that debris, and the properties of the bright flare that is produced and observed,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 M. Cufari , Eric. R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

The existence of light, fundamental bosonic fields is an attractive possibility that can be tested via black hole observations. We study the effect of a tidal field -- caused by a companion star or black hole -- on the evolution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Vitor Cardoso , Francisco Duque , Taishi Ikeda