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Only a tiny fraction ~ 1% of stellar tidal disruption events (TDE) generate powerful relativistic jets evidenced by luminous hard X-ray and radio emissions. We propose that a key property responsible for both this surprisingly low rate and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Odelia Teboul , Brian D. Metzger

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars by single or binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) brighten galactic nuclei and reveal a population of otherwise dormant black holes. Adopting event rates from the literature, we aim to establish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb

Observations of the spectacular, blazar-like tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates Swift J1644+57 and J2058+05 show that the conditions required for accelerating protons to 10^{20} eV appear to be realized in the outer jet, and possibly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 Glennys R. Farrar , Tsvi Piran

Reverberation observations have uncovered an Fe K{\alpha} fluorescence line in the tidal disruption event (TDE) Swift J1644+57 (Kara et al. 2016). The discovery paper used the lag spectrum to argue that the X-ray continuum source was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-16 Wenbin Lu , Julian Krolik , Patrick Crumley , Pawan Kumar

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can capture and tidally disrupt stars or sub-stellar objects orbiting nearby. The detections of Sw J1644+57-like events suggest that at least some TDEs can launch a relativistic jet beaming towards Earth. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-25 Wei-Hua Lei , Qiang Yuan , Bing Zhang , Q. Daniel Wang

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars are destroyed by supermassive black holes and are among the brightest nuclear transients. It has been thought that strong relativistic effects rapidly dissipate orbital energy and produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Ho-Sang Chan , Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) around super massive black holes (SMBHs) are a potential laboratory to study super-Eddington accretion disks and sometimes result in powerful jets or outflows which may shine in the radio and sub millimeter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Brandon Curd , Razieh Emami , Freek Roelofs , Richard Anantua

Recent observations presented in Cendes et al. (2024a) show that optically selected tidal disruption events (TDEs) commonly produce delayed radio emission that can peak years post-disruption. Here, we explore the multi-wavelength properties…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star crosses the tidal radius of a black hole (BH) and is ripped apart, providing a powerful way to probe dormant BHs over a wide mass range. In this study, we present our late-time observations…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) result from stars being gravitationally-scattered into low angular momentum orbits around massive black holes. We show that the short lifetimes of massive Population III stars at high redshifts could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-19 Thomas H. T. Wong , George M. Fuller

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can be observed when stars get too close to supermassive black holes and are torn apart and accreted. The delay time distribution of TDEs, or rate of TDEs as a function of time since a burst of star formation,…

Tidal disruption events provide a unique probe of quiescent black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies. The next generation of synoptic surveys will yield a large sample of flares from the tidal disruption of stars by massive black holes…

During a tidal disruption event, a star is torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, with about 50% of the star's mass eventually accreted by the black hole. The resulting flare can, in extreme cases of super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-31 Walter Winter , Cecilia Lunardini

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

Tidal disruption by massive black holes is a phenomenon, during which a large part of gravitational energy can be released on a very short time-scale. The time-scales and energies involved during X-ray and IR flares observed in Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-17 U. Kostic , A. Gomboc , A. Cadez , M. Calvani

The tidal disruption event AT2018hyz was a regular optically detected one with no special prompt features. However, it suddenly displayed a fast-rising radio flare almost three years after the disruption. The flare is most naturally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-05 Tsvi Piran , Paz Beniamini

We analytically and numerically study the hydrodynamic propagation of a precessing jet in the context of tidal disruption events (TDEs) where the star's angular momentum is misaligned with the black hole spin. We assume that a geometrically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Wenbin Lu , Tatsuya Matsumoto , Christopher D. Matzner

The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2022cmc represents the fourth known example of a relativistic jet produced by the tidal disruption of a stray star providing a unique probe of the formation and evolution of relativistic jets in otherwise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 T. Eftekhari , A. Tchekhovskoy , K. D. Alexander , E. Berger , R. Chornock , T. Laskar , R. Margutti , Y. Yao , Y. Cendes , S. Gomez , A. Hajela , D. R. Pasham

Observational consequences of the tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can enable us to discover quiescent SMBHs and constrain their mass function. Moreover, observing jetted TDEs (from previously non-active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-21 I. Donnarumma , E. M. Rossi , R. Fender , S. Komossa , Z. Paragi , S. Van Velzen , I. Prandoni

Black hole jets represent one of the most extreme manifestations of astrophysical processes, linking accretion physics, relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, and large-scale feedback in galaxies and clusters. Despite decades of observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Andre L. B. Ribeiro , Nathalia M. N. da Rocha