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The tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole (MBH) is thought to produce a transient luminous event. Such tidal disruption events (TDEs) may play an important role in the detection and characterization of MBHs and probe the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Danor Aharon , Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

Recently, the issue of the role of the Eddington limit in accretion discs became a matter of debate. While the classical (spherical) Eddington limit is certainly an over-simplification, it is not really clear how to treat it in a flattened…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Heinzeller , W. J. Duschl , S. Mineshige , K. Ohsuga

We investigate the time evolution of luminous accretion disks around black holes, conducting the two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations. We adopt the alpha prescription for the viscosity. The radial-azimuthal component of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Ohsuga

We present a toy model for the thermal optical/UV/X-ray emission from tidal disruption events (TDE). Motivated by recent hydrodynamical simulations, we assume the debris streams promptly and rapidly circularize (on the orbital period of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Brian D. Metzger

We study effects of winds on the time evolution of isothermal, self-gravitating accretion discs by adopting a radius dependent mass loss rate because of the existence of the wind. Our similarity and semi-analytical solution describes time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mohsen Shadmehri

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

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

We present continued radio and X-ray observations of the relativistic tidal disruption event Swift J164449.3+573451 extending to $\delta t \approx 2000$ d after discovery. The radio data were obtained with the VLA as part of a long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 T. Eftekhari , E. Berger , B. A. Zauderer , R. Margutti , K. D. Alexander

Measuring the mass distribution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) over cosmic time remains particularly challenging for the low mass ($M_{\bullet}\lesssim10^8~M_\odot$) population at $z>1$. This population is also the most sensitive to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-06 Mitchell Karmen , Suvi Gezari , Colin Norman , Muryel Guolo

In this paper, we report on the first 3D general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of large supercritical accretion discs that are tilted with respect to the black hole spin axis. We explore a range of black hole spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 P. Chris Fragile , Matthew J. Middleton , Brooks Brasseur , Deepika A. Bollimpalli , Zach Smith

Stars grazing supermassive black holes on bound orbits may produce periodic flares over many passages, known as repeating partial tidal disruption events (TDEs). Here, we present 3D hydrodynamic simulations of sun-like stars over multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Chang Liu , Ricardo Yarza , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We posit that accreting compact objects, including stellar mass black holes and neutron stars as well as supermassive black holes, may undergo extended periods of accretion during which the angular momentum of the disk at large scales is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Omer M. Blaes , Jay D. Salmonson

We compute the tidal disruption event (TDE) rate around local massive black holes (MBHs) with masses as low as $2.5\times10^4 {\rm M}_\odot$, thus probing the dwarf regime for the first time. We select a sample of 37 galaxies for which we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-09 Hugo Pfister , Marta Volonteri , Jane Lixin Dai , Monica Colpi

Our current understanding of the curved space-time around supermassive black holes is based on actively accreting black holes, which make up only ten per cent or less of the overall population. X-ray observations of that small fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-23 Erin Kara , Jon M. Miller , Chris Reynolds , Lixin Dai

We present solutions to the relativistic thin disc evolutionary equation using an ${\alpha}$-model for the turbulent stress tensor. Solutions with a finite stress at the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) give rise to bolometric light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrew Mummery , Steven A. Balbus

Growth of the black holes (BHs) from the seeds to supermassive BHs (SMBHs, $\sim\!10^9\,M_\odot$) is not understood, but the mass accretion must have played an important role. We performed two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Mariko Nomura , Kazuyuki Omukai , Ken Ohsuga

An accretion disk formed around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) after it disrupts a star is expected to be initially misaligned with respect to the black hole's equatorial plane. This misalignment induces relativistic torques (the…

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have recently been proposed as potential probes for Population III stars. However, the properties of the accretion flow and the wind from the Pop III star TDE system are not clear. By performing radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-29 Yu-Heng Sheng , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Yi-Ren Chang , Liang Chen

We explore the collisional decay of disk mass and infrared emission in debris disks. With models, we show that the rate of the decay varies throughout the evolution of the disks, increasing its rate up to a certain point, which is followed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andras Gaspar , George H. Rieke , Zoltan Balog

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) provide an opportunity to study supermassive black holes that are otherwise quiescent. The Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time will be capable of discovering thousands of TDEs each year, allowing for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-08 K. Decker French , Brenna Mockler , Nicholas Earl , Tanner Murphey