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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

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 entering the tidal sphere of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be partially stripped of mass, resulting in a partial tidal disruption event (TDE). Here we develop an analytical model for properties of these events, including the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-07 Ananya Bandopadhyay , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

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 of stars in dense nuclear star clusters containing supermassive central black holes (SMBH) is modeled by high-accuracy direct N-body simulation. Stars getting too close to the SMBH are tidally disrupted and a tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Shiyan Zhong , Shuo Li , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

The tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be used to probe the SMBH mass function, the properties of individual stars, and stellar dynamics in galactic nuclei. Upcoming missions will detect thousands of TDEs, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Elen C. A. Golightly , C. J. Nixon , Eric R. Coughlin

The tidal destruction of a star by a massive black hole, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE), is commonly modeled using the "frozen-in" approximation. Under this approximation, the star maintains exact hydrostatic balance prior to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Elad Steinberg , Eric R. Coughlin , Nicholas C. Stone , Brian D. Metzger

A star completely destroyed in a tidal disruption event (TDE) ignites a luminous flare that is powered by the fallback of tidally stripped debris to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) of mass $M_{\bullet}$. We analyze two estimates for the…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), events in which a star passes very close to a supermassive black hole, are generally imagined as leading either to the star's complete disruption or to its passage directly into the black hole. In the former…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Taeho Ryu

Tidal disruption events (TDE) occur when a star ventures too close to a massive black hole. In a partial TDE (pTDE), the star only grazes the tidal radius, causing the outer envelope of the star to be stripped away while the stellar core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-05 Jin-Hong Chen , Lixin Dai , Shang-Fei Liu , Jian-Wen Ou

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

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

In dense star clusters, such as globular and open clusters, dynamical interactions between stars and black holes (BHs) can be extremely frequent, leading to various astrophysical transients. Close encounters between a star and a stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Yi-Han Wang , Rosalba Perna , Philip J. Armitage

After the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole, disrupted stellar debris can fall back to the hole at a rate significantly exceeding its Eddington limit. To understand how black hole mass affects the duration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-09 Samantha Wu , Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon

We study the rates of tidal disruption of stars by intermediate-mass to supermassive black holes on bound to unbound orbits by using high-accuracy direct N-body experiments. The approaching stars from the star cluster to the black hole can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shiyan Zhong , Shuo Li , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

We study the mass fallback rate of tidally disrupted stars on marginally bound and unbound orbits around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) by performing three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations with three key…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Gwanwoo Park , Kimitake Hayasaki

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close enough to supermassive black holes to be torn apart by tidal forces. Traditionally, these events are studied with computationally intensive hydrodynamical simulations. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Zihan Zhou , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Irvin Martínez-Rodríguez , Jingping Li

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star is destroyed by the strong tidal shear of a massive black hole (MBH). The accumulation of TDE observations over the last years has revealed that post-starburst galaxies are significantly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-15 Elisa Bortolas

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars operated by massive black holes (MBHs) will be detected in thousands by upcoming facilities such as the Vera Rubin Observatory. In this work, we assess the rates of standard total TDEs, destroying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Elisa Bortolas , Taeho Ryu , Luca Broggi , Alberto Sesana

Highly energetic stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a way to study black hole characteristics and their environment. We simulate TDEs with the PHANTOM code in a general relativistic and Newtonian description of a supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Taj Jankovič , Andreja Gomboc
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