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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can potentially probe low-mass black holes in host galaxies that might not adhere to bulge or stellar-dispersion relationships. At least initially, TDEs can also reveal super-Eddington accretion. X-ray…

We investigate the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the supercritical disk accretion flows around black holes by solving the multi-frequency zeroth moment equation of the radiation transfer equation under the flux-limited diffusion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ohsuga , S. Mineshige , K. Watarai

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star wanders close enough to a black hole to be disrupted by its tidal force. The debris of a tidally disrupted star are expected to form an accretion disc around the supermassive black hole. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 A. Franchini , G. Lodato , S. Facchini

An optical spectroscopy of an unusual fast transient V4641 Sgr constrains its mass to 8.7-11.7M_sun (9.6M_sun is the best fit value) and the distance to 7.4--12.3 kpc (Orosz et al. 2001). At this distance the peak flux of 12 Crab in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Revnivtsev , R. Sunyaev , M. Gilfanov , E. Churazov

Some fraction of the material ejected in a core collapse supernova explosion may remain bound to the compact remnant, and eventually turn around and fall back. We show that the late time (> days) power associated with the accretion of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Jason Dexter , Daniel Kasen

We present continued multi-frequency radio observations of the relativistic tidal disruption event Sw1644+57 extending to dt~600 d. The data were obtained with the JVLA and AMI Large Array. We combine these data with public Swift/XRT and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 B. A. Zauderer , E. Berger , R. Margutti , G. G. Pooley , R. Sari , A. M. Soderberg , A. Brunthaler , M. F. Bietenholz

We compare the luminosity, radius, and temperature evolution of the UV/optical blackbodies for 21 well-observed tidal disruption events (TDEs), 8 of which were discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae. We find that the…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can uncover the quiescent black holes (BHs) at the center of galaxies and also offer a promising method to study them. In a partial TDE (PTDE), the BH's tidal force cannot fully disrupt the star, so the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Jin-Hong Chen , Rong-Feng Shen

When a star passes within the Roche limit of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), it is pulled apart by the BH's tidal field in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The resulting flare is powered by the circularization and accretion of bound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Zachary L. Andalman , Eliot Quataert , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

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

Outflows are inevitably driven from the disk if the vertical component of the black hole (BH) gravity cannot resist the radiation force. We derive the mass loss rate in the outflows by solving a dynamical equation for the vertical gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Xinwu Cao , Wei-Min Gu

Changing-look phenomenon observed now in a growing number of active galaxies challenges our understanding of the accretion process close to a black hole. We propose a simple explanation for the sources where multiple semi-periodic outbursts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 M. Sniegowska , B. Czerny , E. Bon , N. Bon

Supercritical accretion flows inevitably produce radiation-pressure driven outflows, which will Compton up-scatter soft photons from the underlying accretion flow, thereby making hard emission. We perform two dimensional radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Tomohisa Kawashima , Ken Ohsuga , Shin Mineshige , Dominikus Heinzeller , Hideaki Takabe , Ryoji Matsumoto

A tidal disruption event (TDE), AT2019dsg, was observed to be associated with a PeV neutrino event, IceCube-191001A, lagging the optical outburst by a half year. It is known that TDEs may generate ultrafast outflows. If the TDE occurs in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Han-Ji Wu , Guo-Bin Mou , Kai Wang , Wei Wang , Zhuo Li

Most massive galaxies are thought to contain a supermassive black hole in their centre surrounded by a tenuous gas environment, leading to no significant emission. In these quiescent galaxies, tidal disruption events represent a powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-07 Clément Bonnerot , Elena M. Rossi , Giuseppe Lodato

EP240222a is the first intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) tidal disruption event (TDE) captured in real-time with multi-wavelength observations and spectroscopic confirmation. However, its light curves deviate substantially from previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Wenkai Li , Ning Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Rongfeng Shen , Erlin Qiao , Lixin Dai , Di Luo , Dongyue Li , Chichuan Jin , Jiazheng Zhu

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

TDEs have been observed in the optical and UV for more than a decade but the underlying emission mechanism still remains a puzzle. It has been suggested that viewing angle effects could potentially explain their large photometric and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Panos Charalampopoulos , Mattia Bulla , Clement Bonnerot , Giorgos Leloudas

We present simulations of the tidal disruption of a solar mass star by a $10^6M_{\odot}$ black hole. These, for the first time, cover the full time evolution of the tidal disruption event, starting well before the initial encounter and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon

Stars in galactic centers are occasionally scattered so close to the central supermassive black hole that they are completely disrupted by tidal forces, initiating a transient accretion event. The aftermath of such a tidal disruption event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Andrew Mummery , Muryel Guolo , James Matthews , Megan Newsome , Chris Lintott , William Keel