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One of the most prominent problems of optical/ultraviolet (UV) tidal disruption events (TDEs) is the origin of their optical/UV emission. It has been proposed that the soft X-rays produced by the stellar debris accretion disk can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 De-Fu Bu , Erlin Qiao , Xiao-Hong Yang , Jifeng Liu

Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) probe material ejected by the disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), uniquely tracing the formation and evolution of jets and outflows, revealing details of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Kate D. Alexander , Sjoert van Velzen , Assaf Horesh , B. Ashley Zauderer

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

We perform a comprehensive analysis of a population of 19 X-ray bright tidal disruption events (TDEs), fitting their X-ray spectra with a new, physically self consistent, relativistic accretion disc model. Not all of the TDEs inhabit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-19 Andrew Mummery , Thomas Wevers , Richard Saxton , Dheeraj Pasham

Models for tidal disruption events (TDEs) in which a supermassive black hole disrupts a star commonly assume that the highly eccentric streams of bound stellar debris promptly form a circular accretion disk at the pericenter scale. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Gilad Svirski , Tsvi Piran , Julian Krolik

After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), if the stellar debris stream rapidly circularizes and forms a compact disk, the TDE emission is expected to peak in the soft X-ray or far Ultra-Violet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 J. J. Zanazzi , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Owing to their thermal emission, tidal disruption events (TDEs) were regularly detected in the soft X-rays and sometimes in the optical. Only a few TDEs have been detected at hard X-rays: two are high redshift beamed events, one of which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Krzysztof Hryniewicz , Roland Walter

We explore the accretion states of tidal disruption events (TDEs) using a sample of 7 X- ray bright sources. To this end, we estimate the relative contribution of the disk and corona to the observed X-ray emission through spectral modeling,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-15 Thomas Wevers

We describe how the various outcomes of stellar tidal disruption give rise to observable radiation. We separately consider the cases where gas circularizes rapidly into an accretion disc, as well as the case when shocked debris streams…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Nathaniel Roth , Elena M. Rossi , Julian H. Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Brenna Mockler , Daniel Kasen

Following a tidal disruption event (TDE), the accretion rate can evolve from quiescent to near-Eddington levels and back over months - years timescales. This provides a unique opportunity to study the formation and evolution of the…

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

We propose a model to explain the time delay between the peak of the optical and X-ray luminosity, \dt hereafter, in UV/optically-selected tidal disruption events (TDEs). The following picture explains the observed \dt in several TDEs as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Kimitake Hayasaki , Peter G. Jonker

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

A growing fraction of tidal disruption events (TDEs) exhibit radio emission that rises only years after the optical or infrared flare, indicating delayed outflow activity. In some events the outflow is inferred to be slow ($\sim 0.02 \, c$)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Itai Linial , Brian D. Metzger , Andrei M. Beloborodov

This article provides a summary of XMM-Newton highlights on stellar tidal disruption events. First found with ROSAT, ongoing and upcoming sky surveys will detect these events in the 1000s. In X- rays, tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-10 S. Komossa

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) taking place in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are different from ordinary TDEs. In these events, the returning tidal debris stream drills through the pre-existing AGN accretion disk near the stream pericenter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-10 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik

Recent observations presented in Cendes et al. (2024a) show that optically selected tidal disruption events (TDEs) commonly produce delayed radio emission that can peak years post-disruption. Here, we explore the multi-wavelength properties…

We have constructed self-similar models of a time-dependent accretion disk in both sub and super-Eddington phases with wind outflows for tidal disruption events (TDEs). The physical input parameters are the black hole (BH) mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-21 T. Mageshwaran , A. Mangalam

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are multi-messenger transients in which a star is tidally destroyed by a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxies. The Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is anticipated to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-30 K. Szekerczes , T. Ryu , S. H. Suyu , S. Huber , M. Oguri , L. Dai