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During a stellar tidal disruption event (TDE), an accretion disk forms as stellar debris returns to the disruption site and circularizes. Rather than being confined within the circularizing radius, the disk can spread to larger radii to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-11 Rong-Feng Shen , Christopher D. Matzner

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole, and the subsequent accretion of the disrupted debris by that black hole, offers a direct means to study the inner regions of otherwise-quiescent galaxies. These tidal disruption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-01 Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

We construct a time-dependent relativistic accretion model for tidal disruption events (TDEs) with an $\alpha-$viscosity and the pressure dominated by gas pressure. We also include the mass fallback rate $\dot{M}_f$ for both full and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 T. Mageshwaran , Sudip Bhattacharyya

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

Tidal disruption events (TDE) in which a star is devoured by a massive black hole at a galac- tic center pose a challenge to our understanding of accretion processes. Within a month the accretion rate reaches super-Eddington levels. It then…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Tsvi Piran , Aleksander Sadowski , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Geometrically thick disks may form after tidal disruption events, and rapid accretion may lead to short flares followed by long-term, lower-level emission. Using a novel accretion disk code which relies primarily on global conservation laws…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Ulmer

When a star is torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole (a so-called TDE) a transient accretion episode is initiated and a hot, often X-ray bright, accretion disk is formed. Like any accretion flow this disk is turbulent,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrew Mummery

After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), the bound stellar debris rapidly forms an accretion disk. If the accretion disk is not aligned with the spinning SMBH's equatorial plane, the disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star wanders close enough to a black hole to be disrupted by its tidal force. The debris of a tidally disrupted star are expected to form an accretion disc around the supermassive black hole. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 A. Franchini , G. Lodato , S. Facchini

This is a brief review of the recent progress in understanding the evolution of the accretion disks in tidal disruption events (TDEs). Special attention is paid to (1) thermal-viscous instability that causes the disk to transition from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenbin Lu

Accretion of debris seems to be the natural mechanism to power the radiation emitted during a tidal disruption event (TDE), in which a supermassive black hole tears apart a star. However, this requires the prompt formation of a compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-23 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott Noble , Mark Avara

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star plunges through a supermassive black hole's tidal radius, at which point the star's self-gravity is overwhelmed by the tidal gravity of the black hole. In a partial TDE, where the star does…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-19 Patrick R. Miles , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

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

The tidal force from a supermassive black hole can rip apart a star that passes close enough in what is known as a Tidal Disruption Event. Typically half of the destroyed star remains bound to the black hole and falls back on highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Elen Golightly , Eric Coughlin , Chris Nixon

A star coming too close to a supermassive black hole gets disrupted by the tidal force of the compact object in a tidal disruption event, or TDE. Following this encounter, the debris evolves into an elongated stream, half of which coming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu

We present a time-dependent, one-dimensional, magnetically-driven disk wind model based on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, in the context of tidal disruption events (TDEs). We assume that the disk is geometrically thin and gas-pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-04 Mageshwaran Tamilan , Kimitake Hayasaki , Takeru K. Suzuki

A tidal disruption event (TDE) takes place when a star passes near enough to a massive black hole to be disrupted. About half the star's matter is given elliptical trajectories with large apocenter distances, the other half is unbound. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-08 Tsvi Piran , Gilad Svirski , Julian Krolik , Roseanne M. Cheng , Hotaka Shiokawa

Among the many intriguing aspects of optically discovered tidal disruption events (TDEs) is that their temperatures are lower than expected and that the temperature does not evolve as rapidly with decreasing fallback rate as would be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Coleman Miller

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

A popular class of models for interpreting quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions from galactic nuclei (QPEs) invoke collisions between an object on an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) and an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. There…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Andrew Mummery
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