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We present simulated optical light curves of super-Eddington tidal disruption events (TDEs) using the zero-Bernoulli accretion (ZEBRA) flow model, which proposes that during the super-Eddington phase, the disc is quasi-spherical,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris , R. L. C. Starling , P. T. O'Brien , C. J. Nixon , Eric R. Coughlin

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are powerful probes of supermassive black hole (SMBH) properties and accretion physics. The existing light curve fitting tools assume that the disrupted stars are on parabolic orbits, which may introduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-27 Shiyan Zhong , Chenxi Shang , Xiaowei Liu

In the tidal disruption of a star by a black hole, roughly half of the stellar mass becomes bound and falls into the black hole, while the other half is ejected at high velocity. Several previous studies have considered the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Daniel Kasen , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

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

We present continued radio and X-ray observations of the relativistic tidal disruption event Swift J164449.3+573451 extending to $\delta t \approx 2000$ d after discovery. The radio data were obtained with the VLA as part of a long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 T. Eftekhari , E. Berger , B. A. Zauderer , R. Margutti , K. D. Alexander

We investigate the impact of turbulent suppression of parallel heat conduction on the cooling of post-flare coronal loops. Depending on the value of the mean free path $\lambda_T$ associated with the turbulent scattering process, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Nicolas H. Bian , Jonathan M. Watters , Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie

A star wandering too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) will be tidally disrupted. Previous studies of such "tidal disruption event" (TDE) mostly focus on the stellar debris that are bound to the system, because they give rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Xian Chen , Germán Gómez-Vargas , James Guillochon

A star approaching a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be torn apart in a tidal disruption event (TDE). We examine ultra-deep TDEs, a new regime in which the disrupted debris approaches close to the black hole's Schwarzschild radius, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Siva Darbha , Eric R. Coughlin , Daniel Kasen , Chris Nixon

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes close to a massive black hole, so that the tidal forces of the black hole exceed the binding energy of a star and cause it to be ripped apart. Part of the matter will fall onto the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret , Olivier Godet , Maitrayee Gupta , Dacheng Lin , Erwan Quintin , Hugo Tranin

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can be observed when stars get too close to supermassive black holes and are torn apart and accreted. The delay time distribution of TDEs, or rate of TDEs as a function of time since a burst of star formation,…

With the sample of observed tidal disruption events (TDEs) now reaching several tens, distinct spectroscopic classes have emerged: TDEs with only hydrogen lines (TDE-H), only helium lines (TDE-He), or hydrogen in combination with He II and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Matt Nicholl , Daniel Lanning , Paige Ramsden , Brenna Mockler , Andy Lawrence , Phil Short , Evan J. Ridley

We present the optical light curves of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2023clx in the declining phase, observed with Mephisto. Combining our light curve with the ASAS-SN and ATLAS data in the rising phase, and fitting the composite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Shiyan Zhong , Xian Xu , Xinlei Chen , Helong Guo , Yuan Fang , Guowang Du , Xiangkun Liu , Xiaowei Liu

High-cadence, multiwavelength observations have continuously revealed the diversity of tidal disruption events (TDEs), thus greatly advancing our knowledge and understanding of TDEs. In this work, we conducted an intensive optical-UV and…

We present a simple time-dependent model of viscously spreading accretion disks around black holes (BHs) with masses between $10-10^8M_\odot$. We apply the results to observations of late-time emission in tidal disruption events (TDEs) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Mila Winter-Granic , Eliot Quataert

We report the discovery of tidal disruption event (TDE) WFST250820mmsw/AT2025wet by the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST). It exhibits a blue nuclear flare throughout the observed evolution with a g-band peak magnitude ~22, which…

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

We run a suite of hydrodynamics simulations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) of a white dwarf (WD) by a black hole (BH) with a wide range of WD/BH masses and orbital parameters. We implement nuclear reactions to study nucleosynthesis and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Kojiro Kawana , Ataru Tanikawa , Naoki Yoshida

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) 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 origin of thermal optical and UV emission from stellar tidal disruption flares (TDFs) remains an open question. We present Hubble Space Telescope far-UV (FUV) observations of eight optical/UV selected TDFs 5-10 years post-peak. Six…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-29 Sjoert van Velzen , Nicholas C. Stone , Brian D. Metzger , Suvi Gezari , Thomas M. Brown , Andrew S. Fruchter