English
Related papers

Related papers: Probing the tidal disruption event iPTF16axa with …

200 papers

Tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16fnl shows a relatively low optical flare with observationally very weak X-ray emission and the spectroscopic property that the helium emission line from the source dominates over the hydrogen emission line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-29 Mageshwaran Tamilan , Gargi Shaw , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Kimitake Hayasaki

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

The theoretical debris supply rate from a tidal disruption of stars can exceed about one hundred times of the Eddington accretion rate for a $10^{6-7}M_{\odot}$ supermassive black hole (SMBH). It is believed that a strong wind will be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-29 Yuehua Zhang , Qingwen Wu , Jiancheng Wu , Xinwu Cao , Weihua Lei

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In TDEs it is expected that the orbital angular momentum of the disrupted star is generally misaligned with the SMBH spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Jin-Hong Chen , Lixin Dai , Kan Cheuk Kwan , Tom Man Kwan , Zijian Zhang

The cooling envelope model for tidal disruption events (TDE) postulates that while the stellar debris streams rapidly dissipate their bulk kinetic energy (``circularize"), this does not necessarily imply rapid feeding of the supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Nikhil Sarin , Brian D. Metzger

Observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have already produced tens of strong candidate flares, and their number will greatly increase with upcoming wide field surveys. Nevertheless, the origin of the measured luminosity peak at early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Paola Martire , Elena Maria Rossi , Nicholas Chamberlain Stone , Elad Steinberg , Konstantinos Kilmetis , Itai Linial

We predict late-time optical/UV emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) from our slim accretion disc model \citep{Wen20} and explore the impact of the black hole mass $M_\bullet$, black hole spin $a_\bullet$, and accretion disc size.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-06 Sixiang Wen , Peter G. Jonker , Nicholas C. Stone , Sjoert Van Velzen , Ann I. Zabludoff

We present the ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopic evolution of a tidal disruption event (TDE) for the first time. After the discovery of the nearby TDE iPTF16fnl, we obtained a series of observations with the Space Telescope Imaging…

We perform a detailed numerical and analytical study of the properties of observed light curves from relativistic thin discs, focussing on observational bands most appropriate for comparison with tidal disruption events (TDEs). We make use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Andrew Mummery , Steven A. Balbus

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

We present ground-based and \textit{Swift} observations of iPTF16fnl, a likely tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) survey at 66.6 Mpc. The lightcurve of the object peaked at absolute…

Spectroscopically, TDEs are characterized by broad ( 10$^{4}$ km/s) emission lines and show large diversity as well as different line profiles. After carefully and consistently performing a series of data reduction tasks including host…

A tidal disruption event (TDE) may occur when a star is torn apart by the tidal force of a black hole (BH). Eventually, an accretion disc is thought to form out of stellar debris falling back towards the BH. If the star's orbital angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Z. Cao , P. G. Jonker , D. R. Pasham , S. Wen , N. C. Stone , A. I. Zabludoff

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

Tidal disruptions of stars by stellar-mass black holes are expected to occur frequently in dense star clusters. Building upon previous studies that performed hydrodynamic simulations of these encounters, we explore the formation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Kyle Kremer , Brenna Mockler , Anthony L. Piro , James C. Lombardi

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

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

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 have carried out radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of thermally-driven accretion disc winds in low-mass X-ray binaries. Our main goal is to study the luminosity dependence of these outflows and compare with observations. The simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Nick Higginbottom , Christian Knigge , Knox S. Long , James H. Matthews , Edward J. Parkinson

We develop a unification scheme which explains the varied observed properties of TDEs in terms of simple disc physics. The unification scheme postulates that the different observed properties of TDEs are controlled by the peak Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-14 Andrew Mummery
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›