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We discuss the potential of the eROSITA telescope on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory to detect stellar tidal disruption events (TDE) during its 4-year all-sky survey. These events are expected to reveal themselves as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ildar Khabibullin , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev

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

In the centers of galaxies, stars that orbit supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) can undergo tidal disruptions due to the Lidov-Kozai mechanism. Nevertheless, most previous researches have predominantly focused on full tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Xiao-Jun Wu , Ye-Fei Yuan , Yan Luo , Wenbin Lin

The upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will observe 18 000 deg$^2$ of the Southern sky and is expected to discover thousands of transients every night due to its large coverage of the sky and its observing strategy. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Katja Bricman , Andreja Gomboc

It has long been suggested that supermassive black holes in non-active galaxies might be tracked down by occasional tidal disruptions of stars on nearly radial orbits. A tidal disruption event would reveal itself by a luminous flare of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefanie Komossa

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

Time domain optical surveys have discovered roughly a dozen candidate stellar tidal disruption flares in the last five years, and future surveys like the {\it Large Synoptic Survey Telescope} will likely find hundreds to thousands more.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-30 Nicholas C. Stone , Sjoert van Velzen

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

In the past few years wide-field optical and UV transient surveys as well as X-ray telescopes have allowed us to identify a few dozen candidate tidal disruption events (TDEs). While in theory the physical processes in TDEs are expected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Lixin Dai , Jonathan C. McKinney , Nathaniel Roth , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , M. Coleman Miller

We present hydrodynamic simulations with the moving-mesh code AREPO of Tidal Disruption Encores (TDEEs) in nuclear star clusters (NSCs). TDEEs arise when a stellar-mass black hole (sBH) disrupts a star within the NSC, producing debris that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Ian P. A. Johnson , Taeho Ryu , Rosalba Perna

A unique signature for the presence of massive black holes in very dense stellar regions is occasional giant-amplitude outbursts of multiwavelength radiation from tidal disruption and subsequent accretion of stars that make a close approach…

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

Stars approaching supermassive black holes can be tidally disrupted. Despite being expected to emit X-rays, TDEs have been largely observed in optical bands, which is poorly understood. In this Letter, we simulate the tidal disruption of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Fangyi , Hu , Daniel J. Price , Ilya Mandel

The rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) depends sensitively on the stellar properties of the central galactic regions. Simulations show that galaxy mergers cause gas inflows, triggering nuclear starbursts, increasing the central stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-09 Hugo Pfister , Ben Bar-Or , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois , Pedro R. Capelo

We explore the rates of tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars by supermassive black holes (SBHs) in galactic nuclei formed in mergers followed by a formation and coalescence of a binary SBH. Such systems initially have a deficit of stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

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

Recent observations have confirmed the direct association between tidal disruption events (TDEs) and quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs). In addition, TDE hosts and QPE hosts are statistically found to be similar in their morphological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Ning Jiang , Zhen Pan

Stars wandering too close to supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be ripped apart by the tidal forces of the black hole. Recent optical surveys have revealed that E+A galaxies are overrepresented by a factor $\sim $ 30, while green galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-11 Odelia Teboul , Hagai Perets

We perform a comprehensive study of the X-ray emission from 70 transient sources which have been classified as a tidal disruption event (TDE) in the literature. We explore the properties of these candidates using nearly three decades of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Katie Auchettl , James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Recent observations suggest that stellar tidal disruption events (TDE) are strongly overrepresented in rare, post-starburst galaxies. Several dynamical mechanisms have been proposed to elevate their TDE rates, ranging from central stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 Nicholas C. Stone , Aleksey Generozov , Eugene Vasiliev , Brian D. Metzger