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A Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) occurs when a supermassive black hole tidally disrupt a nearby passing star. The fallback accretion rate of the disrupted star may exceed the Eddington limit, which induces a supersonic outflow and a burst of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-14 Zsófia V. Kovács-Stermeczky , József Vinkó

Stars in the immediate vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be ripped apart by the tidal forces of the black hole. The subsequent accretion of the stellar material causes a spectacular flare of electromagnetic radiation. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-06 S. Komossa

Rates of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) due to two-body relaxation are calculated using a large galaxy sample (N=146) in order to explore the sensitivity of the TDE rates to observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 Nicholas C. Stone , Brian D. Metzger

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars by single or binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) brighten galactic nuclei and reveal a population of otherwise dormant black holes. Adopting event rates from the literature, we aim to establish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb

We report results from general relativistic radiation MHD (GRRMHD) simulations of a super-Eddington black hole (BH) accretion disk formed as a result of a tidal disruption event (TDE). We consider the fiducial case of a solar mass star on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-19 Brandon Curd , Ramesh Narayan

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

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is gravitationally disrupted by the tidal field of a supermassive black hole during a close encounter. Radio emission has recently been detected in TDEs and is commonly attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Yuri Sato , Mukul Bhattacharya , Jose Carpio , Jewel Capili , Kohta Murase

We present late-time observations by Swift and XMM-Newton of the tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-15oi that reveal that the source brightened in the X-rays by a factor of $\sim10$ one year after its discovery, while it faded in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 S. Gezari , S. B. Cenko , I. Arcavi

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

Stars in galactic centers are occasionally scattered so close to the central supermassive black hole that they are completely disrupted by tidal forces, initiating a transient accretion event. The aftermath of such a tidal disruption event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Andrew Mummery , Muryel Guolo , James Matthews , Megan Newsome , Chris Lintott , William Keel

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are a class of transients that occur when a star is destroyed by the tides of a massive black hole (MBH). Their rates encode valuable MBH demographic information, but this can only be extracted if accurate TDE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Christian H. Hannah , Nicholas C. Stone , Anil C. Seth , Sjoert van Velzen

We study the rates of tidal disruption of stars by intermediate-mass to supermassive black holes on bound to unbound orbits by using high-accuracy direct N-body experiments. The approaching stars from the star cluster to the black hole can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shiyan Zhong , Shuo Li , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

Recent claimed detections of tidal disruption events (TDEs) in multi-wavelength data have opened potential new windows into the evolution and properties of otherwise dormant supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centres of galaxies. At…

Recently, a high-energy muon neutrino event was detected in association with a tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2019dsg at the time about 150 days after the peak of the optical/UV luminosity. We propose that such a association could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Ruo-Yu Liu , Shao-Qiang Xi , Xiang-Yu Wang

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are among the brightest transients in the optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray sky. These flares are set into motion when a star is torn apart by the tidal field of a massive black hole, triggering a chain of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Elena M. Rossi , Nicholas C. Stone , Jamie A. P. Law-Smith , Morgan MacLeod , Giuseppe Lodato , Jane L. Dai , Ilya Mandel

The discovery of jets from tidal disruption events (TDEs) rejuvenated the old field of relativistic jets powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes. In this Chapter, we first review the extensive multi-wavelength observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Fabio De Colle , Wenbin Lu

Accretion of stars on massive black holes (MBHs) can feed MBHs and generate tidal disruption events (TDEs). We introduce a new physically motivated model to self-consistently treat TDEs in cosmological simulations, and apply it to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Hugo Pfister , Jane Dai , Marta Volonteri , Katie Auchettl , Maxime Trebitsch , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are transient events observed when a star passes close enough to a supermassive black hole to be tidally destroyed. Many TDE candidates have been discovered in host galaxies whose spectra have weak or no line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-12 K. Decker French , Iair Arcavi , Ann Zabludoff

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