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Delayed radio flares of optical tidal disruption events (TDEs) indicate the existence of non-relativistic outflows accompanying TDEs. The interaction of TDE outflows with the surrounding circumnuclear medium creates quasi-perpendicular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Siyao Xu

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occurred in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are a special class of sources with outstanding scientific significance. TDEs can generate ultrafast winds, which should almost inevitably collide with the preexisting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Guobin Mou , Liming Dou , Ning Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Fulai Guo , Wei Wang , Hu Wang , Xinwen Shu , Zhicheng He , Ruiyu Zhang , Luming Sun

We investigate the external reverse shock region of relativistic jets as the origin of X-ray afterglows of jetted tidal disruption events (TDEs) that exhibit luminous jets accompanied by fast-declining non-thermal X-ray emissions. We model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Chengchao Yuan , Walter Winter , B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Bing Zhang

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can generate non-spherical, relativistic and optically thick outflows. Simulations show that the radiation we observe is reprocessed by these outflows. According to a unified model suggested by these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 Edward J. Parkinson , Christian Knigge , Lixin Dai , Lars Lund Thomsen , James H. Matthews , Knox S. Long

An origin of the Optical/UV radiation from tidal disruption events (TDEs) has recently been discussed for different scenarios, but observational support is generally missing. In this Letter, we test applicability of the `Wind-Driven model'…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Kohki Uno , Keiichi Maeda

We derive the first hard X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), which gives an occurrence rate of TDEs per unit volume as a function of peak luminosity and redshift,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Taiki Kawamuro , Yoshihiro Ueda , Megumi Shidatsu , Takafumi Hori , Nobuyuki Kawai , Hitoshi Negoro , Tatehiro Mihara

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

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), in which stars are disrupted by supermassive black holes, have been proposed as potential sources of high-energy neutrinos through hadronic interactions. X-ray-bright TDEs provide dense photon fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Rong-Lan Li , Chengchao Yuan , Hao-Ning He , Yun Wang , Ben-Yang Zhu , Yun-Feng Liang , Ning Jiang , Da-Ming Wei

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are transient flares produced when a star is ripped apart by the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). We have observed a transient source in the western nucleus of the merging galaxy pair…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are exotic transients that can lead to temporary super-Eddington accretion onto a supermassive black hole. Such accretion mode is naturally expected to result in powerful outflows of ionized matter. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 P. Kosec , D. Pasham , E. Kara , F. Tombesi

The temperature remains nearly constant while blackbody emission in UV/optical bands declines more than one order of magnitude in some tidal disruption events (TDEs). The physics behind it is still a mystery. A strong outflow can be driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-16 Xinwu Cao , Tinggui Wang

Tidal disruption events are routinely discovered as bright optical/UV flares, the properties of which are now well categorized on the population level. The underlying physical processes that produce the evolution of their X-ray emission and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Andrew Mummery , Brian Metzger , Sjoert van Velzen , Muryel Guolo

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are unique probes of evolving accretion in supermassive black holes. Recent models of TDE disks show that they undergo brief thermal instabilities with temporal super-Eddington accretion at late times, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Daichi Tsuna , V. Ashley Villar , Anthony L. Piro , Samantha C. Wu

When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH), roughly half of its mass falls back to the BH at super-Eddington rates. Being tenuously gravitationally bound and unable to cool radiatively, only a small fraction f_in <<…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Brian D. Metzger , Nicholas C. Stone

Radio emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) originates from an interaction of an outflow with the super-massive black hole (SMBH) circum nuclear material (CNM). In turn, this radio emission can be used to probe properties of both the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-29 Assaf Horesh , Itai Sfaradi , Rob Fender , David A. Green , David R. A. Williams , Joe Bright

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is destroyed by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, temporarily increasing the accretion rate onto the black hole and producing a bright flare across the electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 A. J. Goodwin , S. van Velzen , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , A. Mummery , M. F. Bietenholz , A. Wederfoort , E. Hammerstein , C. Bonnerot , J. Hoffmann , L. Yan

This work explores a scenario for micro-tidal disruption events (TDEs) triggered by close encounters between high-speed white dwarfs (WDs) and stellar-mass black holes (sBHs) in galactic centers. In this model, a WD orbiting the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Xinyu Li , Houyi Sun , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Huan Yang

One of the main challenges of current tidal disruption events (TDEs) studies is that emission arising from AGN activity may potentially mimic the expected X-ray emission of a TDE. Here we compare the X-ray properties of TDEs and AGN to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-27 Katie Auchettl , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , James Guillochon

Recent UV-optical surveys have been successful in finding tidal disruption events (TDEs), in which a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH). These TDEs release a huge amount of radiation energy ~ 10^51-52 erg into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , Neal J. Evans

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