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A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a supermassive black hole disrupts a nearby passing star by tidal forces. The subsequent fallback accretion of the stellar debris results in a luminous transient outburst. Modeling the light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Zsófia V. Kovács-Stermeczky , József Vinkó

Little Red Dots, discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, are hypothesized to be active galactic nuclei containing a supermassive black hole, possibly surrounded by a dense stellar cluster, large amounts of gas, and likely by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-27 Konstantinos Kritos , Joseph Silk

In this paper, the third in this series, we continue our study of tidal disruption events of main-sequence stars by a non-spinning $10^{6}~\rm{M}_\odot$ supermassive black hole. Here we focus on the outcomes of partial disruptions. As the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

We consider Roche lobe overflow (RLO) from a low-mass star on a nearly circular orbit, onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If mass transfer is unstable, its rate accelerates in a runaway process, resulting in highly super-Eddington mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Itai Linial , Eliot Quataert

A starburst induced by a galaxy merger may create a relatively thin central stellar disk at radius $\le 100$pc. We calculate the rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) by the inspiraling secondary supermassive black (SMBH) through the disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-11 Renyue Cen

Observational evidence suggests that the majority of stars may have been born in stellar clusters or associations. Within these dense environments, dynamical interactions lead to high rates of close stellar encounters. A variety of recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Kyle Kremer , Wenbin Lu , Anthony L. Piro , Sourav Chatterjee , Frederic A. Rasio , Claire S. Ye

Stars can be tidally destroyed or swallowed by supermassive black hole binaries. Using a large number of accurate few-body simulations, we investigate the enhancement and suppression of full and partial disruption and direct capture events…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Taeho Ryu , Alessandro A. Trani , Nathan W. C. Leigh

After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), if the stellar debris stream rapidly circularizes and forms a compact disk, the TDE emission is expected to peak in the soft X-ray or far Ultra-Violet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 J. J. Zanazzi , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We compute rates of tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, using downwardly-revised black hole masses from the M-sigma relation. In galaxies with steep nuclear density profiles, which dominate the overall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jianxiang Wang , David Merritt

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) release enormous amounts of energy, offering a promising avenue for detecting Population III (Pop III) stars. However, the radiative properties of TDEs of Pop III stars have so far been studied only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Yu-Heng Sheng , De-Fu Bu , Liang Chen , Shi-Yin Shen , Bo-Yan Chen , Xiao-Hong Yang

"Hard" massive black hole (MBH) binaries embedded in steep stellar cusps can shrink via three-body slingshot interactions. We show that this process will inevitably be accompanied by a burst of stellar tidal disruptions, at a rate that can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-15 X. Chen , P. Madau , A. Sesana , F. K. Liu

This work explores a scenario for micro-tidal disruption events (TDEs) triggered by close encounters between high-speed white dwarfs (WDs) and stellar-mass black holes (sBHs) in galactic centers. In this model, a WD orbiting the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Xinyu Li , Houyi Sun , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Huan Yang

AT2022cmc was recently reported as the first on-axis jetted tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the last decade, and the fourth on-axis jetted TDE candidate known so far. In this work, we present NuSTAR hard X-ray (3--30 keV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-22 Yuhan Yao , Wenbin Lu , Fiona Harrison , S. R. Kulkarni , Suvi Gezari , Muryel Guolo , S. Bradley Cenko , Anna Y. Q. Ho

This is the third sequel in a series discussing the discovery of various types of extragalactic transients with the {\it James Webb Space Telescope} in a narrow-field ($\sim 0.1$ deg$^2$), moderately deep ($m_{AB} \sim 27$ mag) survey. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 E. Regos , J. Vinko , Z. Stermeczky

The tidal disruption and subsequent accretion of a star by a supermassive black hole can be used as a laboratory to study the physics of relativistic jets. The ngVLA is the only planned instrument that can both discover and characterize a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Sjoert van Velzen , Geoffrey C. Bower , Brian D. Metzger

We present the first sample of tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered during the SRG all-sky survey. These 13 events were selected among X-ray transients detected in the 0<l<180 deg hemisphere by eROSITA during its second sky survey (10…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) may occur in supermassive black holes (SMBHs) surrounded by clouds. TDEs can generate ultrafast and large opening-angle outflow with a velocity of $\sim$ 0.01--0.2 c, which will collide with clouds with time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Jiashi Chen , Wei Wang

The upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will observe 18 000 deg$^2$ of the Southern sky and is expected to discover thousands of transients every night due to its large coverage of the sky and its observing strategy. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Katja Bricman , Andreja Gomboc

Supermassive black holes can experience super-Eddington peak mass fallback rates following the tidal disruption of a star. The theoretical expectation is that part of the infalling material is expelled by means of an accretion disk wind,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 T. Wevers , M. Guolo , D. R. Pasham , E. R. Coughlin , F. Tombesi , Y. Yao , S. Gezari

We investigate the tidal disruption of a neutron star (NS) near a black hole (BH), and for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, near a naked singularity (NaS). For a BH with a mass greater than about $10 M_{\odot}$, the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 Ashok B. Joshi , Pankaj S. Joshi , Sudip Bhattacharyya