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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) as excellent beacons to black hole (BH) accreting systems have been studied for more than five decades with a single star tidally disrupted by a central massive BH. However, if considering two stars passing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Zhang XueGuang

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

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star crosses the tidal radius of a black hole (BH) and is ripped apart, providing a powerful way to probe dormant BHs over a wide mass range. In this study, we present our late-time observations…

An increasing number of ambiguous nuclear transients, including some extreme nuclear transients with very shallow light-curve declines and weak AGN activity in their host galaxies, have been reported. Stars form in or are captured by AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Xiangli Lei , Qingwen Wu , Ya-Ping Li , Wei-Hua Lei

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close to supermassive black holes, and have long been predicted to emit cosmic rays and neutrinos. Recently the TDE AT2109dsg was identified in spatial and temporal coincidence with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-06 Robert Stein

More than 100 tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been detected at multi-bands, which can be viewed as extreme laboratories to investigate the accretion physics and gravity in the immediate vicinity of massive black holes. Future transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-26 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu , Yunfeng Chen

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

Reliably identifying active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in dwarf galaxies is key to understanding black hole demographics at low masses and constraining models for black hole seed formation. Here we present Chandra X-ray Observatory observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-24 Lilikoi J. Latimer , Amy E. Reines , Kevin N. Hainline , Jenny E. Greene , Daniel Stern

We explore the galaxy structure of four tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies on 30 pc to kpc scales using HST WFC3 multi-band imaging. The star formation histories of these hosts are diverse, including one post-starburst galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 K. Decker French , Iair Arcavi , Ann I. Zabludoff , Nicholas Stone , Daichi Hiramatsu , Sjoert van Velzen , Curtis McCully , Ning Jiang

The co-evolution of host galaxies and the active black holes which reside in their centre is one of the most important topics in modern observational cosmology. Here we present a study of the properties of obscured Active Galactic Nuclei…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Brusa , F. Fiore , P. Santini , A. Grazian , A. Comastri , G. Zamorani , G. Hasinger , A. Merloni , F. Civano , A. Fontana , V. Mainieri

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars operated by massive black holes (MBHs) will be detected in thousands by upcoming facilities such as the Vera Rubin Observatory. In this work, we assess the rates of standard total TDEs, destroying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Elisa Bortolas , Taeho Ryu , Luca Broggi , Alberto Sesana

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes close enough to a galaxy's supermassive black hole to be disrupted by tidal forces. We discuss new observations of IGRJ12580+0134, a TDE observed in NGC 4845 (d=17 Mpc) in November…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Eric S. Perlman , Eileen T. Meyer , Q. Daniel Wang , Qiang Yuan , Richard Henriksen , Judith Irwin , Jiangtao Li , Theresa Wiegert , Haochuan Li

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a unique opportunity to probe the stellar populations around supermassive black holes (SMBHs). By combining light curve modeling with spectral line information and knowledge about the stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-24 Brenna Mockler , Angela A. Twum , Katie Auchettl , Sierra Dodd , K. D. French , Jamie A. P. Law-Smith , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We combine deep optical and radio data, from the Hyper Suprime-Cam and the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) respectively, to study 78 radio AGN in nearby (z<0.5) dwarf galaxies. Comparison to a control sample, matched in stellar mass and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 F. Davis , S. Kaviraj , M. J. Hardcastle , G. Martin , R. A. Jackson , K. Kraljic , K. Malek , S. Peirani , D. J. B. Smith , M. Volonteri , L. Wang

We performed a systematic search for stellar tidal disruption events (TDE) by looking for X-ray sources that were detected during the ROSAT All Sky Survey and faded by more than an order of magnitude over the next two decades according to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Ildar Khabibullin , Sergey Sazonov

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars are destroyed by supermassive black holes and are among the brightest nuclear transients. It has been thought that strong relativistic effects rapidly dissipate orbital energy and produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Ho-Sang Chan , Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole is expected to lead to a short bright flare followed by an extended period of low-level emission. Existing models of the late-time accretion of the stellar debris via a thin disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kristen Menou , Eliot Quataert

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are X-ray and gamma-ray radiations emerging from the tidal disintegration of a star or substellar object that passes too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of a galaxy. In November 2010, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 A. Danehkar

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

We present the results of a large multi-wavelength follow-up campaign of the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) \dsg, focusing on low to high resolution optical spectroscopy, X-ray, and radio observations. The galaxy hosts a super massive black…