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We present a review of the topics of X-ray stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) and changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN). Stars approaching a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be tidally disrupted and accreted. TDEs were first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 S. Komossa , D. Grupe

The phenomenon of changing-look (CL) behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is characterized by dramatic changes in luminosity and/or emission line profiles over relatively short periods, ranging from months to years. The origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-19 Yihan Wang , Matthew J. Graham , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan , Taeho Ryu , Daniel Stern

Advances in time domain astronomy have produced a growing population of flares from galactic nuclei, including both tidal disruption events (TDEs) and flares in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Because TDEs are uncommon and AGN variability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-30 Karamveer Kaur , Nicholas C. Stone

Tidal disruption events\,(TDEs) provide a valuable probe in studying the dynamics of stars in the nuclear environments of galaxies. Recent observations show that TDEs are strongly overrepresented in post-starburst or "green valley"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-01 Mengye Wang , Yiqiu Ma , Qingwen Wu , Ning Jiang

A fraction of tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) whose black holes possess accretion disks; these TDEs can be confused with common AGN flares. The disruption itself is unaffected by the disk, but the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-24 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik , Dekel Saban

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are routinely observed in quiescent galaxies, as stars from the nuclear star cluster are scattered into the loss cone of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). TDEs are also expected to occur in Active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 Chaitanya Prasad , Yihan Wang , Rosalba Perna , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan

Tidal disruption event (TDE) rates in active galactic nuclei (AGN) consistently exceed predictions from two-body relaxation, particularly in post-starburst and green valley galaxies. We explain this excess with a new mechanism: a sweeping…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Xiaochen Zheng , Morgan MacLeod , Douglas N. C. Lin , Yi Yang , Zhenzhen Shao

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are occasionally seen in pairs, suggesting that tidal encounters are responsible for the accretion of material by both central supermassive black holes (BHs). In Paper I of this series, we selected a sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin Liu , Yue Shen , Michael A. Strauss

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) mark a regime where traditional vacuum models fail to capture the full dynamics, especially due to interaction between stellar debris and pre-existing accretion disks. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Minghao Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Hongping Deng , Hengxiao Guo , Jingbo Sun

Stars embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks or captured by them may scatter onto the supermassive black hole (SMBH), leading to a tidal disruption event (TDE). Using the moving-mesh hydrodynamics simulations with {\small AREPO},…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Taeho Ryu , Barry McKernan , Saavik Ford , Matteo Cantiello , Matthew Graham , Daniel Stern , Nathan W. C Leigh

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) taking place in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are different from ordinary TDEs. In these events, the returning tidal debris stream drills through the pre-existing AGN accretion disk near the stream pericenter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-10 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik

It is suggested that the variation of mass accretion rate in accretion disk may be responsible for the occurrence of most changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL AGNs). However, the viscous timescale of a thin disk is far longer than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Shuang-Liang Li , Xinwu Cao

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGN) feature order-of-magnitude variability in both the continuum and broad line luminosities on months-to-years long timescales, and are currently unexplained. Simulations have demonstrated that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Nicholas Kaaz , Matthew Liska , Charlotte Ward , Jordy Davelaar

Multiple models have been suggested over the years to explain the structure and support of accretion disks around supermassive black holes, from the standard thin thermal-pressure-dominated $\alpha$-disk model to more recent models that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Yashvardhan Tomar , Philip F. Hopkins , Kyle Kremer

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can act as black hole assembly lines, funneling some of the stellar-mass black holes from the vicinity of the galactic center into the inner plane of the AGN disk where the black holes can merge through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Y. Yang , I. Bartos , G. Fragione , Z. Haiman , M. Kowalski , S. Marka , R. Perna , H. Tagawa

We argue that the `changing look' AGN recently reported by LaMassa et al. could be a luminous flare produced by the tidal disruption of a super-solar mass star passing just a few gravitational radii outside the event horizon of a $\sim 10^8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 A. Merloni , T. Dwelly , M. Salvato , A. Georgakakis , J. Greiner , M. Krumpe , K. Nandra , G. Ponti , A. Rau

The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are expected to be populated by numerous stars, either formed in the outer regions of the disk via gravitational instability, or captured from the nearby nuclear star cluster. Regardless of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-07 Gaia Fabj , Alexander J. Dittmann , Matteo Cantiello , Rosalba Perna , Johan Samsing

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

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) challenges the standard accretion theory owing to its rapid variability. Recent numerical simulations have shown that, for the sub-Eddington accretion case, the disk is magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-11 Wen-Biao Wu , Wei-Min Gu

In the manuscript, effects of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are estimated on long-term AGN variability, to provide interesting clues to detect probable hidden TDEs in normal broad line AGN with apparent intrinsic variability which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-08 XueGuang Zhang
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