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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a clue to the properties of a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) and an accretion disk around it, and to the stellar density and velocity distributions in the nuclear star cluster surrounding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-04 Shiyan Zhong , Kimitake Hayasaki , Shuo Li , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are powerful probes of supermassive black hole (SMBH) properties and accretion physics. The existing light curve fitting tools assume that the disrupted stars are on parabolic orbits, which may introduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-27 Shiyan Zhong , Chenxi Shang , Xiaowei Liu

The host galaxies of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been shown to possess peculiar properties, including high central light concentrations, unusual star-formation histories, and ``green'' colors. The ubiquity of these large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-27 Erica Hammerstein , S. Bradley Cenko , Suvi Gezari , Sylvain Veilleux , Brendan O'Connor , Sjoert van Velzen , Charlotte Ward , Yuhan Yao , Matthew Graham

The evolution of main sequence binaries resided in the galactic centre is influenced a lot by the central super massive black hole (SMBH). Due to this perturbation, the stars in a dense environment are likely to experience mergers or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Bin Liu , Yi-Han Wang , Ye-Fei Yuan

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

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) destroys a star. For TDEs in which the star enters deep within the tidal radius, such that the ratio of the tidal radius to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Suman Kumar Kundu , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

In this paper we derive the gravitational wave stochastic background from tidal disruption events (TDEs). We focus on both the signal emitted by main sequence stars disrupted by super-massive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxy nuclei, and on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-12 Martina Toscani , Elena M. Rossi , Giuseppe Lodato

The rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs), $R_\text{TDE}$, is predicted to depend on stellar conditions near the super-massive black hole (SMBH), which are on difficult-to-measure sub-parsec scales. We test whether $R_\text{TDE}$ depends…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Or Graur , K. Decker French , H. Jabran Zahid , James Guillochon , Kaisey S. Mandel , Katie Auchettl , Ann I. Zabludoff

The detection of a subsolar object in a compact binary merger is regarded as one of the most compelling signatures of a population of primordial black holes (PBHs). We critically examine whether such systems can be distinguished from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Francesco Crescimbeni

In our current interpretation of the hierarchical structure of the universe it is well established that galaxies collide and merge with each other during their lifetime. If massive black holes (MBHs) reside in galactic centres, we expect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Patrick Brem , Jorge Cuadra

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the products of frequent galaxy mergers. The coalescence of the SMBHBs is a distinct source of gravitational wave (GW) radiation. The detections of the strong GW radiation and their possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Shuo Li , F. K. Liu , Peter Berczik , Xian Chen , Rainer Spurzem

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) take place when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and becomes ruptured. One of the leading proposed physical mechanisms often invoked in the literature involves weak two-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-16 Denyz Melchor , Brenna Mockler , Smadar Naoz , Sanaea Rose , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are found in most galactic nuclei. A significant fraction of these nuclei also contain a nuclear stellar cluster (NSC) surrounding the SMBH. In this paper, we consider the idea that the NSC forms first, from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Abbas Askar , Melvyn B. Davies , Ross P. Church

We discuss a possibility that a tidal disruption event near a dormant supermassive black hole (SMBH) can give rise to spectral features of iron in 6-7 keV X-ray signal: a relativistic line profile emerges from debris illuminated and ionised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 V. Karas , M. Dovciak , D. Kunneriath , W. Yu , W. Zhang

In this paper, we study the secular dynamical evolution of binaries composed of intermediate-mass and stellar-mass black holes (IMBHs and SBHs, respectively) in orbit about a central super-massive black hole (SMBH) in galactic nuclei. Such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Giacomo Fragione , Nathan Leigh

Binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) are expected to form naturally during galaxy mergers. After the dynamical friction phase, when the two SMBHs become gravitationally bound to each other, and a brief stage of initial rapid hardening,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a means to probe the low end of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass distribution, as they are only observable below the Hills mass ($\lesssim 10^8$ M$_\odot$). Here we attempt to calibrate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Paige Ramsden , Daniel Lanning , Matt Nicholl , Sean L. McGee

We explore full/partial tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars/planets by stellar compact objects (Black holes; BHs; or neutron stars; NSs), which we term micro-TDEs. Disruption of a star/planet with mass $M_{\star}$ may lead to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 Hagai B. Perets , Zhuo Li , James C. Lombardi , Stephen R. Milcarek

Massive black holes (BHs) at the centres of massive galaxies are ubiquitous. The population of BHs within dwarf galaxies, on the other hand, is evasive. Dwarf galaxies are thought to harbour BHs with proportionally small masses, including…

Dense stellar environments like nuclear star clusters (NSCs) can dynamically assemble gravitational wave (GW) sources. We consider a population of single stellar mass black holes (BHs) in the inner $0.1$~pc of a NSC surrounding a $4 \times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Amanda Newton , Sanaea C. Rose , Fulya Kıroğlu , Bao-Minh Hoang , Frederic A. Rasio