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When a star is torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole (a so-called TDE) a transient accretion episode is initiated and a hot, often X-ray bright, accretion disk is formed. Like any accretion flow this disk is turbulent,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrew Mummery

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 consider Roche lobe overflow (RLO) from a low-mass star on a nearly circular orbit, onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If mass transfer is unstable, its rate accelerates in a runaway process, resulting in highly super-Eddington mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Itai Linial , Eliot Quataert

The recent transient event Swift J1644+57 has been interpreted as emission from a collimated relativistic jet, powered by the sudden onset of accretion onto a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star. Here we model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Brian D. Metzger , Dimitrios Giannios , Petar Mimica

Stream-stream collisions play an important role for the circularization of highly eccentric streams resulting from tidal disruption events (TDEs). We perform three dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations to show that stream…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Yan-Fei Jiang , James Guillochon , Abraham Loeb

Context. To date, three nuclear transients have been associated with high-energy neutrino events. These transients are generally thought to be powered by tidal disruptions of stars (TDEs) by massive black holes. However, AT2019aalc, hosted…

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

Tidal disruption events occur when stars are ripped apart by massive black holes, and result in highly luminous, multi-wavelength flares. Optical/UV observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) contradict simple models of TDE emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-27 Elad Steinberg , Nicholas C. Stone

Owing to their thermal emission, tidal disruption events (TDEs) were regularly detected in the soft X-rays and sometimes in the optical. Only a few TDEs have been detected at hard X-rays: two are high redshift beamed events, one of which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Krzysztof Hryniewicz , Roland Walter

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) take place when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and becomes ruptured. One of the leading proposed physical mechanisms often invoked in the literature involves weak two-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-16 Denyz Melchor , Brenna Mockler , Smadar Naoz , Sanaea Rose , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We present and analyze the optical/UV and X-ray observations of a nearby tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT2019azh, spanning from $\sim$ 30 d before to $\sim$ 400 d after its early optical peak. The X-rays show a late brightening by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Xiao-Long Liu , Li-Ming Dou , Jin-Hong Chen , Rong-Feng Shen

The black hole candidate, XTE J1752-223, was discovered in 2009 October when it entered an outburst. We obtained radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array for the duration of the ~9 month event. The lightcurves show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Catherine Brocksopp , Stephane Corbel , Tasso Tzioumis , Jess Broderick , Jerome Rodriguez , Jun Yang , Rob Fender , Zsolt Paragi

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star. Part of the stellar material falls toward the black hole, forming an accretion disk that in some cases launches a relativistic jet. We performed…

The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018fyk has unusual X-ray, UV, and optical light curves that decay over the first $\sim$600d, rebrighten, and decay again around 1200d. We explain this behavior as a one-off TDE associated with a massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 S. Wen , P. G. Jonker , A. J. Levan , D. Li , N. C. Stone , A. I. Zabludoff , Z. Cao , T. Wevers , D. R. Pasham , C. Lewin , E. Kara

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

We analyze both the early and late time radio and X-ray data of the tidal disruption event Swift J1644+57. The data at early times ($\lesssim 5$ days) necessitates separation of the radio and X-ray emission regions, either spatially or in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Dangbo Liu , Asaf Pe'er , Abraham Loeb

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…

This proceeding presents recent results from a joint analysis of time-dependent neutrino and electromagnetic emissions from tidal disruption events (TDEs), using both isotropic wind models and relativistic jets. We discuss constraints from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Chengchao Yuan , Walter Winter , Cecilia Lunardini , B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Bing Zhang

Totally similar physical process in tidal disruption events (TDEs) basically indicates that there should be potential parameter to distinguish variability properties of TDEs from the other transient events having different physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Zhang XueGuang

Off-nuclear tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a rare probe of massive black holes (MBHs) outside galactic nuclei. Only a handful are known, including five X-ray-selected candidates and two optically selected events. We present…