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The Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) AT 2018hyz exhibited a delayed radio flare almost three years after the stellar disruption. Here we report new radio observations of the TDE AT 2018hyz with the AMI-LA and ATCA spanning from a month to more…

A black hole can launch a powerful relativistic jet after it tidally disrupts a star. If this jet fortuitously aligns with our line of sight, the overall brightness is Doppler boosted by several orders of magnitude. Consequently, such…

We present new observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array of seven X-ray-selected tidal disruption events (TDEs). The radio observations were carried out between 9 and 22 years after the initial X-ray discovery, and, thus, probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Geoffrey C. Bower , Brian D. Metzger , S. Bradley Cenko , Jeffrey M. Silverman , Joshua S. Bloom

AT2018cqh is a unique tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate discovered in a dwarf galaxy. Both the light curve fitting and galaxy scaling relationships suggest a central black hole mass in the range of 5.9<logM_BH/M_sun<6.4. A delayed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Fabao Zhang , Xinwen Shu , Lei Yang , Luming Sun , Zhumao Zhang , Yibo Wang , Guobin Mou , Xue-Guang Zhang , Tianyao Zhou , Fangkun Peng

Tidal Disruption Events are exotic astrophysical phenomena where matter from a star or the interstellar medium is captured by a supermassive black hole. The process liberates enormous energy, within a few months to a year timescale, enough…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Arka Chatterjee , Kimitake Hayasaki , Prantik Nandi , Neeraj Kumari , Skye R. Heiland , Arghajit Jana , Sachindra Naik , Samar Safi-Harb

During a tidal disruption event, a star is torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, with about 50% of the star's mass eventually accreted by the black hole. The resulting flare can, in extreme cases of super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-31 Walter Winter , Cecilia Lunardini

The jet in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is a key ingredient in understanding the co-evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Unfortunately, the mechanism of jet launching and collimation is still elusive.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-29 Su Yao , Xiaolong Yang , Minfeng Gu , Tao An , Jun Yang , Luis C. Ho , Xiang Liu , Ran Wang , Xue-Bing Wu , Weimin Yuan

AT 2022cmc is a recently documented tidal disruption event (TDE) that exhibits a luminous jet, accompanied by fast-declining X-ray and long-lasting radio/millimeter emission. Motivated by the distinct spectral and temporal signatures…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Chengchao Yuan , B. Theodore Zhang , Walter Winter , Kohta Murase

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

The nearby face-on spiral galaxy NGC 2617 underwent an unambiguous 'inside-out' multi-wavelength outburst in Spring 2013, and a dramatic Seyfert type change probably between 2010 and 2012, with the emergence of broad optical emission lines.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Jun Yang , Zsolt Paragi , Robert J. Beswick , Wen Chen , Ilse M. van Bemmel , Qingwen Wu , Tao An , Xiaocong Wu , Lulu Fan , J. B. R. Oonk , Xiang Liu , Weihua Wang

We present late-time radio/millimeter (as well as optical/UV and X-ray) detections of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018hyz, spanning $970 - 1300$ d after optical discovery. In conjunction with earlier deeper limits, including at…

For the majority of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates, the observed energy in the optical/near-UV bands is of order 10^{51} erg. We show that this observed energy is smaller than the minimum bolometric energy for the radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar

ASASSN-14li is a recently-discovered tidal disruption event with an exceptionally rich data-set: spectra and lightcurves in soft X-rays, UV, optical, and radio. To understand its emission properties in all these bands, we have extended our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-24 Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Gilad Svirski , Roseanne M. Cheng

We present detailed radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2019dsg, obtained with the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and spanning $55-560$ days post-disruption. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 Y. Cendes , K. D. Alexander , E. Berger , T. Eftekhari , P. K. G. Williams , R. Chornock

SDSS J1115+0544 is a unique low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER) galaxy with energetic ultraviolet (UV), optical and mid-infrared outbursts occurring in its nucleus. We present the results from an analysis of multi-wavelength…

We present ongoing radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018hyz, which was first detected in the radio at 972 days after disruption, following multiple non-detections from earlier searches. The new observations presented…

We present deep infrared (Ks band) imaging polarimetry and radio (1.4 and 4.8 GHz) polarimetry of the enigmatic transient Swift J164449.3+573451. This source appears to be a short lived jet phenomenon in a galaxy at redshift z = 0.354,…

The existence of accreting supermassive black holes up to billions of solar masses at early cosmological epochs (in the context of this work, redshifts z>=6) requires very fast growth rates which is challenging to explain. The presence of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-12 S. Frey , Y. Zhang , K. Perger , T. An , K. É. Gabányi , L. I. Gurvits , C. -Y. Hwang , E. Koptelova , Z. Paragi , J. Fogasy

The flare of radiation from the tidal disruption and accretion of a star can be used as a marker for supermassive black holes that otherwise lie dormant and undetected in the centres of distant galaxies. Previous candidate flares have had…

We present observations of Swift J1112.2-8238, and identify it as a candidate relativistic tidal disruption flare (rTDF). The outburst was first detected by Swift/BAT in June 2011 as an unknown, long-lived (order of days) $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 G. C. Brown , A. J. Levan , E. R. Stanway , N. R. Tanvir , S. B. Cenko , E. Berger , R. Chornock , A. Cucchiaria