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We discuss a possibility that a tidal disruption event near a dormant supermassive black hole (SMBH) can give rise to spectral features of iron in 6-7 keV X-ray signal: a relativistic line profile emerges from debris illuminated and ionised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 V. Karas , M. Dovciak , D. Kunneriath , W. Yu , W. Zhang

We study how the matter dispersed when a supermassive black hole tidally disrupts a star joins an accretion flow. Combining a relativistic hydrodynamic simulation of the stellar disruption with a relativistic hydrodynamics simulation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Hotaka Shiokawa , Julian H. Krolik , Roseanne M. Cheng , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

Optically-thick envelopes may form following the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole. Such envelopes would reprocess hard radiation from accretion close to the black hole into the UV and optical bands producing AGN-luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Ulmer , Bohdan Paczynski , Jeremy Goodman

We study X-ray bright tidal disruption events (TDE), close to the peak of their emission, with the intention of understanding the evolution of their light curves and spectra. Candidate TDE are identified by searching for soft X-ray flares…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 R. D. Saxton , A. M. Read , S. Komossa , P. Lira , K. D. Alexander , M. H. Wieringa

We analytically and numerically study the hydrodynamic propagation of a precessing jet in the context of tidal disruption events (TDEs) where the star's angular momentum is misaligned with the black hole spin. We assume that a geometrically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Wenbin Lu , Tatsuya Matsumoto , Christopher D. Matzner

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

The process of tidal disruption of stars by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) provides luminous UV and soft X-ray flares with peak luminosities of $\approx 10^{46}$ ergs/sec and duration of a few months. As part of a wider exploration of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Andrea Sacchi , Giuseppe Lodato

Tidal disruption events of stars by supermassive black holes have so far been discovered months to years after the fact. In this paper we explore the short, faint and hard burst of radiation is emitted at maximum compression, as a result of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 Almog Yalinewich , James Guillochon , Re'em Sari , Abraham Loeb

The tidal disruption event AT2018hyz was a regular optically detected one with no special prompt features. However, it suddenly displayed a fast-rising radio flare almost three years after the disruption. The flare is most naturally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-05 Tsvi Piran , Paz Beniamini

A tidal disruption event (TDE) -- when a star is destroyed by the immense gravitational field of a supermassive black hole -- transforms a star into a stream of tidally-shredded debris. The properties of this debris ultimately determine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon , Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star plunges through a supermassive black hole's tidal radius, at which point the star's self-gravity is overwhelmed by the tidal gravity of the black hole. In a partial TDE, where the star does…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-19 Patrick R. Miles , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

We present the results of a large multi-wavelength follow-up campaign of the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) \dsg, focusing on low to high resolution optical spectroscopy, X-ray, and radio observations. The galaxy hosts a super massive black…

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

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star gets torn apart by the strong tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, which results in the formation of a debris stream that partly falls back towards the compact object. This gas moves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star crosses the tidal radius of a black hole (BH) and is ripped apart, providing a powerful way to probe dormant BHs over a wide mass range. In this study, we present our late-time observations…

We use the general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics code \verb=KORAL= to simulate the early stages of accretion disk formation resulting from the tidal disruption of a solar mass star around a super massive black hole (BH) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Brandon Curd

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star enters the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If the star only grazes the tidal radius, a fraction of the stellar mass will be accreted in a partial TDE (pTDE). The remainder…

We examine the consequences of a model in which relativistic jets can be triggered in quiescent massive black holes when a geometrically thick and hot accretion disk forms as a result of the tidal disruption of a star. To estimate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Fabio De Colle , James Guillochon , Jill Naiman , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

A significant number of tidal disruption events (TDEs) radiate primarily at optical and ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, with only weak soft X-ray components. One model for this optical excess proposes that thermal X-ray emission from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Edward J. Parkinson , Christian Knigge , James H. Matthews , Knox S. Long , Nick Higginbottom , Stuart A. Sim , Samuel W. Mangham

In this Letter, we simulate the collision between outflows from the tidal disruption of a 1M$_\odot$ main sequence star around a $10^6$M$_\odot$ black hole and an initially spherically symmetric circumnuclear cloud. We launch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Fangyi , Hu , Adelle Goodwin , Daniel J. Price , Ilya Mandel , Re'em Sari , Kimitake Hayasaki