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After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), if the stellar debris stream rapidly circularizes and forms a compact disk, the TDE emission is expected to peak in the soft X-ray or far Ultra-Violet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 J. J. Zanazzi , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We report an observational estimate of the rate of stellar tidal disruption flares (TDFs) in inactive galaxies, based on a successful search for these events among transients in galaxies using archival SDSS multi-epoch imaging data (Stripe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-27 Sjoert van Velzen , Glennys R. Farrar

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are mainly powered by accretion in neutron stars or stellar-mass black holes. Accreting at rates exceeding the Eddington limit by factors of a few up to hundreds, radiation pressure is expected to inflate…

AT2022cmc was recently reported as the first on-axis jetted tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the last decade, and the fourth on-axis jetted TDE candidate known so far. In this work, we present NuSTAR hard X-ray (3--30 keV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-22 Yuhan Yao , Wenbin Lu , Fiona Harrison , S. R. Kulkarni , Suvi Gezari , Muryel Guolo , S. Bradley Cenko , Anna Y. Q. Ho

Winds are commonly observed in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A plausible model of those winds is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc winds. In the case of disc winds from a thin accretion disc, isothermal or adiabatic assumption is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Weixiao Wang , De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan

Tidal disruption of main sequence stars by black holes has generally been thought to lead to a signal dominated by UV emission. If, however, the black hole spins rapidly and the poloidal magnetic field intensity on the black hole horizon is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Julian H. Krolik , Tsvi Piran

Stream-stream collision may be an important pre-peak energy dissipation mechanism in tidal disruption events (TDEs). We perform local three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations in a wedge geometry including the gravity to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-fei Jiang

The evolution of an accretion disk, formed as a consequence of the disruption of a star by a black hole, is followed by solving numerically the hydrodynamic equations. The present investigation aims to study the dependence of resulting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Matias Montesinos , José A. de Freitas Pacheco

Using archival SDSS multi-epoch imaging data (Stripe 82), we have searched for the tidal disruption of stars by super-massive black holes in non-active galaxies. Two candidate tidal disruption events (TDEs) are identified. They have optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-23 Sjoert van Velzen , Glennys R. Farrar , Suvi Gezari , Nidia Morrell , Dennis Zaritsky , Linda Ostman , Mathew Smith , Joseph Gelfand , Andrew J. Drake

During the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole (BH) of mass MBH <~ 10^7 Msun, stellar debris falls back to the BH at a rate well above the Eddington rate. A fraction of this gas is subsequently blown away from the BH,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Linda E. Strubbe , Eliot Quataert

The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2022cmc represents the fourth known example of a relativistic jet produced by the tidal disruption of a stray star providing a unique probe of the formation and evolution of relativistic jets in otherwise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 T. Eftekhari , A. Tchekhovskoy , K. D. Alexander , E. Berger , R. Chornock , T. Laskar , R. Margutti , Y. Yao , Y. Cendes , S. Gomez , A. Hajela , D. R. Pasham

The flare produced when a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole holds potential as a diagnostic of both the black hole mass and the star mass. We propose a new method to realize this potential based upon a physical model of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran

We build a simple model of the optical/UV emission from irradiation of the outer disc by the inner disc and coronal emission in black hole binaries. We apply this to the broadband Swift data from the outburst of the black hole binary XTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marek Gierlinski , Chris Done , Kim Page

We study the 2-D, time-dependent hydrodynamics of radiation-driven winds from accretion disks in which the radiation force is mediated by spectral lines. If the dominant contribution to the total radiation field comes from the disk, then we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel Proga , James M. Stone , Janet E. Drew

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 analyze three prototypical black hole (BH) X-ray binaries (XRBs), \4u1630, \gro1655\ and \h1743, in an effort to systematically understand the intrinsic state transition of the observed accretion-disk winds between \windon\ and \windoff\…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-19 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas , Chris Shrader , Francesco Tombesi , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Ehud Behar

We present late-time optical spectroscopy and X-ray, UV, and optical photometry of the nearby ($d=214$ Mpc, $z=0.0479$) tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-15oi. The optical spectra span 450 days after discovery and show little remaining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-14 T. W. -S. Holoien , J. S. Brown , K. Auchettl , C. S. Kochanek , J. L. Prieto , B. J. Shappee , J. Van Saders

2D axis-symmetric hydrodynamical simulations are presented which explore the interaction of stellar and disk winds with surrounding infalling cloud material. The star, and its accompanying disk, blow winds inside a cavity cleared out by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 E. R. Parkin , J. M. Pittard , M. G. Hoare , N. J. Wright , J. J. Drake

We report the detection of a significant infrared variability of the nearest tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-14li using Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} and newly released Near-Earth Object WISE Reactivation} data. In comparison…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-08 Ning Jiang , Liming Dou , Tinggui Wang , Chenwei Yang , Jianwei Lyu , Hongyan Zhou

In this Letter, we present early emission data analysis of the tidal disruption event TDE 2025aarm, including optical, UV and X-ray data. At a redshift of z = 0.01368, TDE 2025aarm is the second closest TDE ever discovered, offering an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Andrea Simongini , Maria Kherlakian , Alicia López-Oramas , Josefa Becerra , Davide Cerasole