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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

We present new observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array of seven X-ray-selected tidal disruption events (TDEs). The radio observations were carried out between 9 and 22 years after the initial X-ray discovery, and, thus, probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Geoffrey C. Bower , Brian D. Metzger , S. Bradley Cenko , Jeffrey M. Silverman , Joshua S. Bloom

Stars on orbits with pericenters sufficiently close to the supermassive black hole at the center of their host galaxy can be ripped apart by tidal stresses. Some of the resulting stellar debris becomes more tightly bound to the hole and can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Juan Servin , Michael Kesden

Stars in galactic centers are occasionally scattered so close to the central supermassive black hole that they are completely disrupted by tidal forces, initiating a transient accretion event. The aftermath of such a tidal disruption event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Andrew Mummery , Muryel Guolo , James Matthews , Megan Newsome , Chris Lintott , William Keel

We present a systematic analysis of the radio properties of an X-ray selected sample of tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates discovered by the eROSITA telescope. We find radio sources coincident with half of the transient events (11…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 A. J. Goodwin , M. Burn , G. E. Anderson , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , I. Grotova , P. Baldini , Z. Liu , A. Malyali , A. Rau , M. Salvato

Stream-stream collision may be an important pre-peak energy dissipation mechanism in tidal disruption events (TDEs). We perform local three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations in a wedge geometry including the gravity to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-fei Jiang

Stream-stream collisions play an important role for the circularization of highly eccentric streams resulting from tidal disruption events (TDEs). We perform three dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations to show that stream…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Yan-Fei Jiang , James Guillochon , Abraham Loeb

Whether tidal disruption events (TDEs) circularise or accrete directly as a highly eccentric disc is the subject of current research and appears to depend sensitively on the disc thermodynamics. In a previous paper we applied the theory of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Elliot M. Lynch , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is disrupted by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), producing bright multi-wavelength flares. Among these events, AT2020mot has so far exhibited the highest recorded optical…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are expected to release much of their energy in the far-ultraviolet (UV), which we do not observe directly. However, infrared (IR) observations can observe re-radiation of the optical/UV emission from dust,…

Tidal disruption events (TDE) have been considered as cosmic-ray and neutrino sources for a decade. We suggest two classes of new scenarios for high-energy multi-messenger emission from TDEs that do not have to harbor powerful jets. First,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-19 Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura , B. Theodore Zhang , Foteini Oikonomou , Maria Petropoulou

We perform the first systematic study of the minute-to-hours-timescale stochastic variability observed in the X-ray luminosity of tidal disruption events (TDEs) using XMM-Newton data and Fourier analysis methods. We measure the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 Joheen Chakraborty , Megan Masterson , Andrew Mummery , Erin Kara , Christos Panagiotou , Riccardo Arcodia , Vera Berger

Delayed radio emission has been associated with a growing proportion of tidal disruption events (TDEs). For many events, the radio synchrotron emission is inferred to originate from the interaction of mildly-relativistic outflows, launched…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Samantha C. Wu , Daichi Tsuna , Brenna Mockler , Anthony L. Piro

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 temperature remains nearly constant while blackbody emission in UV/optical bands declines more than one order of magnitude in some tidal disruption events (TDEs). The physics behind it is still a mystery. A strong outflow can be driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-16 Xinwu Cao , Tinggui Wang

XMM-Newton's large field of view and excellent sensitivity have resulted in hundreds of thousands of serendipitous X-ray detections. Whilst their spectra have been widely exploited, their variable nature has been little studied. Part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-01 Natalie A. Webb

We present the optical and infrared properties of a sample of 24 radio transient sources discovered in the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). Previous studies of their radio emission showed that these sources resemble young…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , D. Kozieł-Wierzbowska , D. Stern , A. Krauze , N. Zafar , T. Connor , M. J. Graham

Recent claimed detections of tidal disruption events (TDEs) in multi-wavelength data have opened potential new windows into the evolution and properties of otherwise dormant supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centres of galaxies. At…

Optical time-domain survey has been the dominant means of hunting for rare tidal disruption events (TDEs) in the past decade and remarkably advanced the TDE study. Particularly, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has opened the era of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-05 Zheyu Lin , Ning Jiang , Xu Kong

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star enters the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If the star only grazes the tidal radius, a fraction of the stellar mass will be accreted in a partial TDE (pTDE). The remainder…