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The capture and disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), and the formation and coalescence of binaries, are inevitable consequences of the presence of SMBHs at the cores of galaxies. Pairs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 S. Komossa , J. A. Zensus

A star destroyed by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a tidal disruption event (TDE) enables the study of SMBHs. We propose that the distance within which a star is completely destroyed by a SMBH, defined $r_{\rm t, c}$, is accurately…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon

Detections of the tidal disruption flares (TDFs) of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are rapidly accumulating as optical surveys improve. These detections may provide constraints on SMBH demographics, stellar dynamics, and stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-07 Nathaniel Roth , Sjoert van Velzen , S. Bradley Cenko , R. F. Mushotzky

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

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

Massive black holes (BHs) at the centres of massive galaxies are ubiquitous. The population of BHs within dwarf galaxies, on the other hand, is evasive. Dwarf galaxies are thought to harbour BHs with proportionally small masses, including…

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are processes where stars are torn apart by the strong gravitational force near to a massive or supermassive black hole. If a jet is launched in such a process, particle acceleration may take place in internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-15 Daniel Biehl , Denise Boncioli , Cecilia Lunardini , Walter Winter

The hierarchical galaxy formation model predicts supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) in galactic nuclei. Due to the gas poor environment and the limited spatial resolution in observations they may hide in the center of many a galaxy.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Shuo Li , Peter Berczik , Xian Chen , F. K. Liu , Rainer Spurzem , Yu Qiu

The rate of tidal disruption flares (TDFs) per mass of the disrupting black hole encodes information on the present-day mass function (PDMF) of stars in the clusters surrounding super massive black holes. We explore how the shape of the TDF…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Abraham Loeb , James Guillochon

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) have traditionally been discovered in optical sky surveys through targeted searches of nuclear transients. However, it is expected that some TDEs will occur outside the galaxy nucleus, arising from wandering…

We study tidal disruption and subsequent mass fallback for stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Kimitake Hayasaki , Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb

The tidal destruction of a star by a massive black hole, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE), is commonly modeled using the "frozen-in" approximation. Under this approximation, the star maintains exact hydrostatic balance prior to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Elad Steinberg , Eric R. Coughlin , Nicholas C. Stone , Brian D. Metzger

Two-body relaxation may drive stars onto near-radial orbits around a massive black hole, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE). In some circumstances, stars are unlikely to undergo a single terminal disruption, but rather to have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Luca Broggi , Nicholas C. Stone , Taeho Ryu , Elisa Bortolas , Massimo Dotti , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

We estimate the rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) that will be detectable with future gravitational wave detectors as well as the most probable properties of these events and their possible electromagnetic counterpart. To this purpose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Hugo Pfister , Martina Toscani , Thomas Hong Tsun Wong , Jane Lixin Dai , Giuseppe Lodato , Elena M. Rossi

The disruption of a main-sequence star by a supermassive black hole results in the initial production of an extended debris stream that winds repeatedly around the black hole, producing a complex three-dimensional figure that may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star is destroyed by a supermassive black hole. Broadband radio spectral observations of TDEs trace the emission from any outflows or jets that are ejected from the vicinity of the supermassive…

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational wave (GW) emission from stars tidally disrupted by black holes (TDEs), using a semi-analytical approach. Contrary to previous works where this signal is modeled as a monochromatic burst, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Martina Toscani , Luca Broggi , Alberto Sesana , Elena Maria Rossi

One of the puzzles associated with tidal disruption event candidates (TDEs) is that there is a dichotomy between the color temperatures of ${\rm few}\times 10^4$~K for TDEs discovered with optical and UV telescopes, and the color…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Lixin Dai , Jonathan C. McKinney , M. Coleman Miller

We compute the expected cosmic rates of tidal disruption events induced by individual massive black holes (MBHs) and by MBH binaries (MBHBs) - with a specific focus on the latter class - to explore the potential of TDEs to probe the cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Stephen Thorp , Eli Chadwick , Alberto Sesana

Recent claimed detections of tidal disruption events (TDEs) in multi-wavelength data have opened potential new windows into the evolution and properties of otherwise dormant supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centres of galaxies. At…