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We develop a unification scheme which explains the varied observed properties of TDEs in terms of simple disc physics. The unification scheme postulates that the different observed properties of TDEs are controlled by the peak Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-14 Andrew Mummery

We present two luminous UV/optical flares from the nuclei of apparently inactive early-type galaxies at z=0.37 and 0.33 that have the radiative properties of a flare from the tidal disruption of a star. In this paper we report the second…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) offer a unique way to study dormant black holes. While the number of observed TDEs has grown thanks to the emergence of wide-field surveys in the past few decades, questions regarding the nature of the…

X-ray Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered phenomenon associated with supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. They are high amplitude soft X-ray flares that recur on timescales of hours, but what causes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Joheen Chakraborty , Erin Kara , Megan Masterson , Margherita Giustini , Giovanni Miniutti , Richard Saxton

We estimate the rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) that will be detectable with future gravitational wave detectors as well as the most probable properties of these events and their possible electromagnetic counterpart. To this purpose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Hugo Pfister , Martina Toscani , Thomas Hong Tsun Wong , Jane Lixin Dai , Giuseppe Lodato , Elena M. Rossi

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are typically discovered in previously quiescent galaxies. However, earlier studies have revealed a handful of TDEs occurring in pre-existing active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We discuss AT2019aalc, a promising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-12 Patrik Milán Veres

Tidal disruption by massive black holes is a phenomenon, during which a large part of gravitational energy can be released on a very short time-scale. The time-scales and energies involved during X-ray and IR flares observed in Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-17 U. Kostic , A. Gomboc , A. Cadez , M. Calvani

The sporadic accretion following the tidal disruption of a star by a super-massive black hole (TDE) leads to a bright UV and soft X-ray flare in the galactic nucleus. The gas and dust surrounding the black hole responses to such a flare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-02 Liming Dou , Ting-gui Wang , Ning Jiang , Chenwei Yang , Jianwei Lyu , Hongyan Zhou

The multiwavelength properties of radio-emitting tidal disruption events (TDEs) are poorly understood. In a previous paper, we presented the first sample of radio-selected, optically-detected TDEs, which included two events (VT J1008 and VT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-09 Jean J. Somalwar , Vikram Ravi , Wenbin Lu

Gamma-ray observations of a stellar tidal disruption event (TDE) detected by the Swift satellite and follow up observations in radio, mm, infrared and x-ray bands have provided a rich data set to study accretion onto massive blackholes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-17 P. Kumar , R. Barniol Duran , Z. Bosnjak , T. Piran

We report the discovery of a second optical flare that occurred in September 2021 in IRAS F01004-2237, where the first flare occurred in 2010 has been reported, and present a detailed analysis of multi-band data. The position of the flare…

We consider Roche lobe overflow (RLO) from a low-mass star on a nearly circular orbit, onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If mass transfer is unstable, its rate accelerates in a runaway process, resulting in highly super-Eddington mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Itai Linial , Eliot Quataert

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are valuable probes of the demographics of supermassive black holes as well as the dynamics and population of stars in the centers of galaxies. In this Letter, we focus on studying how the debris disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Thomas Hong Tsun Wong , Hugo Pfister , Lixin Dai

We present the optical discovery and multiwavelength follow-up observations of AT2024kmq, a likely tidal disruption event (TDE) associated with a supermassive ($M_{\rm BH}\sim 10^{8} M_\odot$) black hole in a massive galaxy at $z=0.192$.…

A fraction of tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) whose black holes possess accretion disks; these TDEs can be confused with common AGN flares. The disruption itself is unaffected by the disk, but the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-24 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik , Dekel Saban

Observations of the spectacular, blazar-like tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates Swift J1644+57 and J2058+05 show that the conditions required for accelerating protons to 10^{20} eV appear to be realized in the outer jet, and possibly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 Glennys R. Farrar , Tsvi Piran

We present a detailed radio study of the tidal disruption events (TDEs) AT 2020zso and AT 2021sdu. Both exhibit transient radio emission beginning shortly after optical discovery and persisting for several years. For AT 2020zso, we identify…

When a star passes through the tidal disruption radius of a massive black hole (BH), it can be torn apart by the tidal force of the BH, known as the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). Since the observed UV/optical luminosity significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Hengxiao Guo , Jingbo Sun , Shuang-Liang Li , Yan-Fei Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Defu Bu , Ning Jiang , Yanan Wang , Yuhan Yao , Rongfeng Shen , Minfeng Gu , Mouyuan Sun

A late (t $\sim$ 1,500 days) multi-wavelength (UV, optical, IR, and X-ray) flare was found in PS1-10adi, a tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate that took place in an active galactic nucleus (AGN). TDEs usually involve super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Jialun Zhuang , Rong-Feng Shen

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
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