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An increasing number of ambiguous nuclear transients, including some extreme nuclear transients with very shallow light-curve declines and weak AGN activity in their host galaxies, have been reported. Stars form in or are captured by AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Xiangli Lei , Qingwen Wu , Ya-Ping Li , Wei-Hua Lei

In this Letter, we report the detection of soft X-ray time lags-i.e. variability in the softer photons lagging behind that in the harder photons-in seven XMM-Newton observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT2021ehb. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenjie Zhang

Once per 10,000-100,000 years, an unlucky star may experience a close encounter with a supermassive black hole (SMBH), partially or fully tearing apart the star in an exceedingly brief, bright interaction called a tidal disruption event…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Rewa Clark Bush , Samantha C. Wu , Rosa Wallace Everson , Ricardo Yarza , Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

A dormant supermassive black hole lurking in the center of a galaxy will be revealed when a star passes close enough to be torn apart by tidal forces, and a flare of electromagnetic radiation is emitted when the bound fraction of the…

Accretion of debris seems to be the natural mechanism to power the radiation emitted during a tidal disruption event (TDE), in which a supermassive black hole tears apart a star. However, this requires the prompt formation of a compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-23 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott Noble , Mark Avara

During a close encounter between a star and a supermassive black hole, the star can get disrupted by the black hole's tidal forces, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The accretion of the star's material onto the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Hampel , S. Komossa , J. Greiner , T. H. Reiprich , M. Freyberg , T. Erben

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is disrupted by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, and these events produce bright multi-wavelength flares. Polarimetric measurements of TDEs allow us to disentangle the geometry…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) around super massive black holes (SMBHs) are a potential laboratory to study super-Eddington accretion disks and sometimes result in powerful jets or outflows which may shine in the radio and sub millimeter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Brandon Curd , Razieh Emami , Freek Roelofs , Richard Anantua

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

When a star comes too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event, or TDE. Half of the elongated stream of debris comes back to the stellar pericenter where relativistic apsidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu , Philip F. Hopkins

Off-nuclear tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a rare probe of massive black holes (MBHs) outside galactic nuclei. Only a handful are known, including five X-ray-selected candidates and two optically selected events. We present…

We report the discovery by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) of a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16axa at $z=0.108$, and present its broadband photometric and spectroscopic evolution from 3 months of follow-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 T. Hung , S. Gezari , N. Blagorodnova , N. Roth , S. B. Cenko , S. R. Kulkarni , A. Horesh , I. Arcavi , C. McCully , Lin Yan , R. Lunnan , C. Fremling , Y. Cao , P. E. Nugent , P. Wozniak

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

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs), made up of a dense concentrations of stars and the compact objects they leave behind, are ubiquitous in the central regions of galaxies, surrounding the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-28 Taeho Ryu , Rosalba Perna , Matteo Cantiello

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) occur when a star is disrupted by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), producing bright multi-wavelength flares. Among these events, AT2020mot has so far exhibited the highest recorded optical…

We study the circularization of tidally disrupted stars on bound orbits around spinning supermassive black holes by performing three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations with Post-Newtonian corrections. Our simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-09 Kimitake Hayasaki , Nicholas C. Stone , Abraham Loeb

We demonstrate tidal detonation during a tidal disruption event (TDE) of a helium (He) white dwarf (WD) with $0.45M_\odot$ by an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) by extremely high-resolution simulations. Tanikawa et al. (2017) have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Ataru Tanikawa

Winds can be launched in tidal disruption event (TDE). It has been proposed that the winds can interact with the cloud surrounding the black hole, produce bow shocks, accelerate electrons, and produce radio emission. We restudy the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 De-Fu Bu , Liang Chen , Guobin Mou , Erlin Qiao , Xiao-Hong Yang

When a star is torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole (a so-called TDE) a transient accretion episode is initiated and a hot, often X-ray bright, accretion disk is formed. Like any accretion flow this disk is turbulent,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrew Mummery
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