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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are luminous black hole (BH) transient sources, which are detected mainly in X-ray and optical bands. It is generally believed that the X-ray emission in TDEs is produced by an accretion disc formed as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-06 Erlin Qiao , Yongxin Wu , Yiyang Lin , Meng Guo , Jifeng Liu , Chenlei Guo , Chichuan Jin , Ning Jiang

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole is expected to lead to a short bright flare followed by an extended period of low-level emission. Existing models of the late-time accretion of the stellar debris via a thin disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kristen Menou , Eliot Quataert

When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH), roughly half of its mass falls back to the BH at super-Eddington rates. Being tenuously gravitationally bound and unable to cool radiatively, only a small fraction f_in <<…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Brian D. Metzger , Nicholas C. Stone

EP240222a is the first intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) tidal disruption event (TDE) captured in real-time with multi-wavelength observations and spectroscopic confirmation. However, its light curves deviate substantially from previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Wenkai Li , Ning Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Rongfeng Shen , Erlin Qiao , Lixin Dai , Di Luo , Dongyue Li , Chichuan Jin , Jiazheng Zhu

AT 2020mot is a typical UV/optical tidal disruption event (TDE) with no radio or X-ray signatures in a quiescent host. We find an i-band excess and re-brightening along the decline of the light curve which could be due to two consecutive…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are believed to be an ideal laboratory for studying the evolution of accretion flow around a supermassive black hole (BH). In general, the mass feeding rate to the BH is suggested to be super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Chenlei Guo , Erlin Qiao

Tidal disruption events occur when stars are ripped apart by massive black holes, and result in highly luminous, multi-wavelength flares. Optical/UV observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) contradict simple models of TDE emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-27 Elad Steinberg , Nicholas C. Stone

Stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) are typically discovered by transient emission due to accretion or shocks of the stellar debris. Yet this luminous flare can be reprocessed by gas or dust that inhabits a galactic nucleus, resulting in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Sjoert van Velzen , Dheeraj R. Pasham , Stefanie Komossa , Lin Yan , Erin A. Kara

We develop a new model for X-ray emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs), applying stationary general relativistic ``slim disk'' accretion solutions to supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and then ray-tracing the photon trajectories from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-14 Sixiang Wen , Peter G. Jonker , Nicholas C. Stone , Ann I. Zabludoff , Dimitrios Psaltis

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), in which stars are gravitationally disrupted as they pass close to the supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, are potentially important probes of strong gravity and accretion physics. Most TDEs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-10 C. Tadhunter , R. Spence , M. Rose , J. Mullaney , P. Crowther

We find that the majority of systems hosting multiple tidal disruptions are likely to contain hard binary SMBH systems, and also show that the rates of these repeated events are high enough to be detected by LSST over its lifetime.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christopher Wegg , J. Nate Bode

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

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are exotic transients that can lead to temporary super-Eddington accretion onto a supermassive black hole. Such accretion mode is naturally expected to result in powerful outflows of ionized matter. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 P. Kosec , D. Pasham , E. Kara , F. Tombesi

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 strong tidal force in a supermassive black hole's (SMBH) vicinity, coupled with a higher stellar density at the center of a galaxy, make it an ideal location to study the interaction between stars and black holes. Two stars moving near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-17 Betty X. Hu , Avi Loeb

Extreme tidal disruption events (eTDEs), which occur when a star passes very close to a supermassive black hole, may provide a way to observe a long-sought general relativistic effect: orbits that wind several times around a black hole and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran

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