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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…

Recent UV-optical surveys have been successful in finding tidal disruption events (TDEs), in which a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH). These TDEs release a huge amount of radiation energy ~ 10^51-52 erg into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , Neal J. Evans

Tidal disruption events which repeat on timescales of months-to-years represent an unambiguous signature of a partial disruption, with the surviving stellar remnant returning to pericentre to be repeatedly stripped by tidal forces. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Andrew Mummery

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) occur when a star or sub-stellar object passes close enough to a galaxy's supermassive black hole to be disrupted by tidal forces. NGC 4845 (d=17 Mpc) was host to a TDE, IGR J12580+0134, detected in November…

The bipolar HH 212 outflow has been mapped in SiO using the extended configuration of the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI), revealing a highly collimated SiO jet closely associated with the H2 jet component. We study at unprecedented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Cabrit , C. Codella , F. Gueth , B. Nisini , A. Gusdorf , C. Dougados , F. Bacciotti

Off-nuclear tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a rare probe of massive black holes (MBHs) outside galactic nuclei. Only a handful are known, including five X-ray-selected candidates and two optically selected events. We present…

We present long-duration numerical simulations of the tidal disruption of stars modelled with accurate stellar structures and spanning a range of pericentre distances, corresponding to cases where the stars are partially and completely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Chris Nixon , Eric Coughlin , Patrick Miles

We present ground-based and Swift photometric and spectroscopic observations of the candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-14li, found at the center of PGC 043234 ($d\simeq90$ Mpc) by the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae…

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

We study close encounters of a $1\,M_{\odot}$ middle-age main-sequence star (modeled using MESA) with massive black holes through hydrodynamic simulations, and explore in particular the dependence of the outcomes on the black hole mass. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Fulya Kıroğlu , James C. Lombardi , Kyle Kremer , Giacomo Fragione , Shane Fogarty , Frederic A. Rasio

Stars orbiting supermassive black holes can generate recurring accretion flares in repeating partial tidal disruption events (TDEs). Here we develop an efficient formalism for analyzing the time-dependent response of a star to the removal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Ananya Bandopadhyay , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

One of the puzzles associated with tidal disruption event candidates (TDEs) is that there is a dichotomy between the color temperatures of ${\rm few}\times 10^4$~K for TDEs discovered with optical and UV telescopes, and the color…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Lixin Dai , Jonathan C. McKinney , M. Coleman Miller

The geometrically thick dusty torus structure is believed to exist in the nuclear region of galaxies (especially in active galactic nuclei, AGNs). The debris stream from a tidal disruption event (TDE) will possibly collide with the dusty…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-29 Xiangli Lei , Qingwen Wu , Hui Li , Ya-Ping Li , Wei-Hua Lei , Xiao Fan , Jiancheng Wu , Mengye Wang , Weibo Yang

We explore the galaxy structure of four tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies on 30 pc to kpc scales using HST WFC3 multi-band imaging. The star formation histories of these hosts are diverse, including one post-starburst galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 K. Decker French , Iair Arcavi , Ann I. Zabludoff , Nicholas Stone , Daichi Hiramatsu , Sjoert van Velzen , Curtis McCully , Ning Jiang

The tidal field of a black hole can turn a star into a gas stream whose orbit can precess, especially if the a black hole is rapidly spinning. In this work, we investigate the impact of precession on the light curves of tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Diego Calderón , Ondřej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Paul C. Duffell , Stephan Rosswog

One of the most prominent problems of optical/ultraviolet (UV) tidal disruption events (TDEs) is the origin of their optical/UV emission. It has been proposed that the soft X-rays produced by the stellar debris accretion disk can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 De-Fu Bu , Erlin Qiao , Xiao-Hong Yang , Jifeng Liu

We present optical spectropolarimetry of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2019qiz on days $+0$ and $+29$ relative to maximum brightness. Continuum polarization, which informs the shape of the electron-scattering surface, was found to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Kishore C. Patra , Wenbin Lu , Thomas G. Brink , Yi Yang , Alexei V. Filippenko , Sergiy S. Vasylyev

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have long been hypothesized as valuable indicators of black holes, offering insight into their demographics and behaviour out to high redshift. TDEs have also enabled the discovery of a few Massive Black Holes…

We report the detection of a significant infrared variability of the nearest tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-14li using Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} and newly released Near-Earth Object WISE Reactivation} data. In comparison…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-08 Ning Jiang , Liming Dou , Tinggui Wang , Chenwei Yang , Jianwei Lyu , Hongyan Zhou