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The event PS16dtm, which occured in the center of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy SDSS J015804.75-005221.8 (z = 0.080440), is one of the few candidates for a tidal disruption event in an already-acretting active galactic nucleus…

More than 100 tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been detected at multi-bands, which can be viewed as extreme laboratories to investigate the accretion physics and gravity in the immediate vicinity of massive black holes. Future transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-26 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu , Yunfeng Chen

The existence of optical-ultraviolet Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) could be considered surprising because their electromagnetic output was originally predicted to be dominated by X-ray emission from an accretion disk. Yet over the last…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Sjoert van Velzen , Thomas W. -S. Holoien , Francesca Onori , Tiara Hung , Iair Arcavi

We present detailed radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-19bt/AT2019ahk, obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and the MeerKAT radio…

When a star comes within a critical distance to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), immense tidal forces disrupt the star, resulting in a stream of debris that falls back onto the SMBH and powers a luminous flare. In this paper, we perform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 James Guillochon , Haik Manukian , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Elliptical accretion disk models for tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been recently proposed and independently developed by two groups. Although these two models are characterized by a similar geometry, their physical properties differ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Fukun Liu , Chunyang Cao , Marek A. Abramowicz , Maciek Wielgus , Rong Cao , Zhiqin Zhou

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of 14 tidal disruption events (TDEs)-including an off-nuclear event associated with an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy-selected for having available thermal X-ray spectra during their late-time UV/optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-03 M. Guolo , A. Mummery , S. van Velzen , S. Gezari , M. Nicholl , Y. Yao , M. Karmen , Y. Ajay , T. Wevers , N. LeBaron , R. Chornock

Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) probe material ejected by the disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), uniquely tracing the formation and evolution of jets and outflows, revealing details of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Kate D. Alexander , Sjoert van Velzen , Assaf Horesh , B. Ashley Zauderer

Stars approaching supermassive black holes can be tidally disrupted. Despite being expected to emit X-rays, TDEs have been largely observed in optical bands, which is poorly understood. In this Letter, we simulate the tidal disruption of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Fangyi , Hu , Daniel J. Price , Ilya Mandel

The concept of stars being tidally ripped apart and consumed by a massive black hole (MBH) lurking in the center of a galaxy first captivated theorists in the late 1970's. The observational evidence for these rare but illuminating phenomena…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-15 Suvi Gezari

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can uncover the quiescent black holes (BHs) at the center of galaxies and also offer a promising method to study them. In a partial TDE (PTDE), the BH's tidal force cannot fully disrupt the star, so the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Jin-Hong Chen , Rong-Feng Shen

We model the light curves of the novel and extremely luminous transient ASASSN-15lh at nine different frequencies, from infrared to ultra-violet photon energies, as an evolving relativistic disc produced in the aftermath of a tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Andrew Mummery , Steven Balbus

During a close encounter between a star and a supermassive black hole, the star can get disrupted by the black hole's tidal forces, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The accretion of the star's material onto the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Hampel , S. Komossa , J. Greiner , T. H. Reiprich , M. Freyberg , T. Erben

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

A small fraction of candidate tidal disruption events (TDEs) show evidence of powerful relativistic jets, which are particularly pronounced at radio wavelengths, and likely contribute non-thermal emission at a wide range of wavelengths. A…

The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018fyk has unusual X-ray, UV, and optical light curves that decay over the first $\sim$600d, rebrighten, and decay again around 1200d. We explain this behavior as a one-off TDE associated with a massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 S. Wen , P. G. Jonker , A. J. Levan , D. Li , N. C. Stone , A. I. Zabludoff , Z. Cao , T. Wevers , D. R. Pasham , C. Lewin , E. Kara

We predict late-time optical/UV emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) from our slim accretion disc model \citep{Wen20} and explore the impact of the black hole mass $M_\bullet$, black hole spin $a_\bullet$, and accretion disc size.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-06 Sixiang Wen , Peter G. Jonker , Nicholas C. Stone , Sjoert Van Velzen , Ann I. Zabludoff

In the canonical model for tidal disruption events (TDEs), the stellar debris circularizes quickly to form an accretion disk of size about twice the orbital pericenter of the star. Most TDEs and candidates discovered in the optical/UV have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 R. Cao , F. K. Liu , Z. Q. Zhou , S. Komossa , L. C. Ho

We present the discovery of ASASSN-18jd (AT 2018bcb), a luminous optical/UV/X-ray transient located in the nucleus of the galaxy 2MASX J22434289--1659083 at $z=0.1192$. Over the year after discovery, Swift UVOT photometry shows the UV SED…