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A star coming too close to a supermassive black hole gets disrupted by the tidal force of the compact object in a tidal disruption event, or TDE. Following this encounter, the debris evolves into an elongated stream, half of which coming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu

When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets disrupted by strong tidal forces. The stellar debris then evolves into an elongated stream of gas that partly falls back towards the black hole. We present an analytical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-18 Clément Bonnerot , Martin E. Pessah , Wenbin Lu

When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH), the gas debris is stretched into an elongated stream. The longitudinal motion of the stream follows geodesics in the Kerr spacetime and the evolution in the transverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-09 Gauri Batra , Wenbin Lu , Clément Bonnerot , E. Sterl Phinney

We study how the matter dispersed when a supermassive black hole tidally disrupts a star joins an accretion flow. Combining a relativistic hydrodynamic simulation of the stellar disruption with a relativistic hydrodynamics simulation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Hotaka Shiokawa , Julian H. Krolik , Roseanne M. Cheng , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

A star around a massive black hole can be disrupted tidally by the gravity of the black hole. Then, its debris may form a precessing stream which may even collide with itself. In order to understand the dynamical effects of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hyung Mok Lee , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole and gets torn apart by its gravitational tidal field. After the disruption, the stellar debris form an expanding gaseous stream. The morphology…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Andrea Sacchi , Giuseppe Lodato , Claudia Toci , Valentina Motta

The disruption of a main-sequence star by a supermassive black hole results in the initial production of an extended debris stream that winds repeatedly around the black hole, producing a complex three-dimensional figure that may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

When a star comes too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event, or TDE. Half of the elongated stream of debris comes back to the stellar pericenter where relativistic apsidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu , Philip F. Hopkins

A star can be tidally disrupted around a massive black hole. It has been known that the debris forms a precessing stream, which may collide with itself. The stream collision is a key process determining the subsequent evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sungsoo S. Kim , Myeong-Gu Park , Hyung Mok Lee

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star gets torn apart by the strong tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, which results in the formation of a debris stream that partly falls back towards the compact object. This gas moves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu

Tidal disruption events occur when a star is disrupted by a supermassive black hole, resulting in an elongated stream of gas that partly falls back to the pericenter. Due to apsidal precession, the returning stream may collide with itself,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 Taj Jankovič , Clément Bonnerot , Andreja Gomboc

In a tidal disruption event (TDE), a star is destroyed by the tidal field of a supermassive black hole. The stellar debris is initially placed on highly elliptical orbits, and a longstanding question in TDE theory is: How does the stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Chris Nixon , Eric R. Coughlin , Zachary L. Andalman

We study accretion processes for tidally disrupted stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find that there…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Kimitake Hayasaki , Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb

The potential of tidal disruption of stars to probe otherwise quiescent supermassive black holes cannot be exploited, if their dynamics is not fully understood. So far, the observational appearance of these events has been derived from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Clément Bonnerot , Elena M. Rossi , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

When a star passes close to a supermassive black hole (BH), the BH's tidal forces rip it apart into a thin stream, leading to a tidal disruption event (TDE). In this work, we study the post-disruption phase of TDEs in general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Zachary L. Andalman , Matthew T. P. Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eric R. Coughlin , Nicholas Stone

We investigate misaligned accretion discs formed after tidal disruption events that occur when a star encounters a supermassive black hole. We employ the linear theory of warped accretion discs to find the shape of a disc for which the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Xiang-Gruess , P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou

We consider misaligned accretion discs formed after tidal disruption events occurring when a star encounters a supermassive rotating black hole. We use the linear theory of warped accretion discs to find the disc shape when the stream…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 P. B. Ivanov , V. V. Zhuravlev , J. C. B. Papaloizou

When a massive object crosses a star stream velocity changes are induced both along and transverse to the stream which can lead to the development of a visible gap. For a stream narrow relative to its orbital radius the time of stream…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 R. G. Carlberg

A large number of tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates have been observed recently, often differing in their observational features. Two classes appear to stand out: X-ray and optical TDEs, the latter featuring lower effective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Clément Bonnerot , Elena M. Rossi , Giuseppe Lodato

We study the hydrodynamical evolution of massive accretion disks around black holes, formed when a neutron star is disrupted by a black hole in a binary system. Initial conditions are taken from 3D calculations of coalescing binaries.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
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