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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…

The tidal field of a black hole can turn a star into a gas stream whose orbit can precess, especially if the a black hole is rapidly spinning. In this work, we investigate the impact of precession on the light curves of tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Diego Calderón , Ondřej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Paul C. Duffell , Stephan Rosswog

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

It is likely that the disk of a tidal disruption event (TDE) is misaligned with respect to the equatorial plane of the spinning supermassive black hole (SMBH), since the initial stellar orbit before disruption is most likely has an inclined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Hao-Yu Yuan , Hong-Zhou Wu , Wei-Hua Lei

We describe a model of tidal disruption events (TDEs) with input physical parameters that include the black hole (BH) mass $M_{\bullet}$, the specific orbital energy $E$, the angular momentum $J$, the star mass $M_{\star}$ and radius…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-16 A. Mangalam , T. Mageshwaran

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 formation of a compact accretion disk following a tidal disruption event (TDE) requires that the shocked stellar debris cool efficiently as it settles toward the black hole. While recent simulations suggest that stream dissipation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Semih Tuna , Brian D. Metzger , Yan-Fei Jiang , Andrea Antoni

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole is expected to lead to a short bright flare followed by an extended period of low-level emission. Existing models of the late-time accretion of the stellar debris via a thin disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kristen Menou , Eliot Quataert

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

Close encounter between a star and a supermassive black hole (SMBH) results in the tidal disruption of the star, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE). Recently, a few TDEs, e.g., ASASSN-15oi and AT2018hyz, have shown late-time (hundreds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Jialun Zhuang , Rong-Feng Shen , Guobin Mou , Wenbin Lu

A popular class of models for interpreting quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions from galactic nuclei (QPEs) invoke collisions between an object on an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) and an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. There…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Andrew Mummery

In the canonical model for tidal disruption events (TDEs), the stellar debris circularizes quickly to form an accretion disk of size about twice the orbital pericenter of the star. Most TDEs and candidates discovered in the optical/UV have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 R. Cao , F. K. Liu , Z. Q. Zhou , S. Komossa , L. C. Ho

Tidal disruption events which repeat on timescales of months-to-years represent an unambiguous signature of a partial disruption, with the surviving stellar remnant returning to pericentre to be repeatedly stripped by tidal forces. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Andrew Mummery

The optical spectral energy distributions of two tidal disruption flares identified by van Velzen et al. (2011) in archival SDSS data, are found to be well-fit by a thin-accretion-disk model. Furthermore, the inferred Supermassive Black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Glennys R. Farrar

Stars on orbits with pericenters sufficiently close to the supermassive black hole at the center of their host galaxy can be ripped apart by tidal stresses. Some of the resulting stellar debris becomes more tightly bound to the hole and can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Juan Servin , Michael Kesden

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close to supermassive black holes, and have long been predicted to emit cosmic rays and neutrinos. Recently the TDE AT2109dsg was identified in spatial and temporal coincidence with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-06 Robert Stein

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have long been hypothesized as valuable indicators of black holes, offering insight into their demographics and behaviour out to high redshift. TDEs have also enabled the discovery of a few Massive Black Holes…

We calculate the polarization of radiation from thick accretion disks with vertically averaged global magnetic field. The polarization arises as a result of the radiation scattering by free electrons in magnetized plasma of a disk. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , P. S. Shternin

Observational astronomy of tidal disruption events (TDEs) began with the detection of X-ray flares from quiescent galaxies during the ROSAT all-sky survey of 1990-1991. The flares complied with theoretical expectations, having high peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-30 R. Saxton , S. Komossa , K. Auchettl , P. G Jonker

Relativistic jets can form from at least some tidal disruption events (TDEs) of (sub-)stellar objects around supermassive black holes. We detect the millimeter (MM) emission of IGR J12580+0134 --- the nearest TDE known in the galaxy NGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 Qiang Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang , Wei-Hua Lei , He Gao , Bing Zhang