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In the Letter, a new candidate for central tidal disruption event (TDE) is reported in SDSS J014124+010306 (=SDSS J0141) with broad Mg~{\sc ii} line at redshift $z=1.06$. Based on long-term photometric $ugriz$-band variabilities from SDSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-08 Zhang XueGuang

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) represent a truly unique, and potentially very powerful, probe of the quiescent supermassive black hole (SMBH) population. Given current observational survey capabilities the vast majority of the TDEs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-22 Andrew Mummery

The tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) probes relativistic gravity. In the coming decade, the number of observed tidal disruption events (TDEs) will grow by several orders of magnitude, allowing statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon

Tidal disruption of stars in dense nuclear star clusters containing supermassive central black holes (SMBH) is modeled by high-accuracy direct N-body simulation. Stars getting too close to the SMBH are tidally disrupted and a tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Shiyan Zhong , Shuo Li , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

A tidal disruption event (TDE) ensues when a star passes too close to the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a galactic center and is ripped apart by the tidal field of the SMBH. The gaseous debris produced in a TDE can power a bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Nicholas C. Stone , Michael Kesden , Roseanne M. Cheng , Sjoert van Velzen

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are transient flares produced when a star is ripped apart by the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). We have observed a transient source in the western nucleus of the merging galaxy pair…

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…

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…

The real nature of little red dots (LRDs), a class of very compact galaxies in the early Universe recently discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, is still poorly understood. The most popular theories competing to interpret the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Krisztina Perger , Judit Fogasy , Sándor Frey

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) offer a unique way to study dormant black holes. While the number of observed TDEs has grown thanks to the emergence of wide-field surveys in the past few decades, questions regarding the nature of the…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are unique probes of evolving accretion in supermassive black holes. Recent models of TDE disks show that they undergo brief thermal instabilities with temporal super-Eddington accretion at late times, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Daichi Tsuna , V. Ashley Villar , Anthony L. Piro , Samantha C. Wu

About a hundred tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been observed and they exhibit a wide range of emission properties both at peak and over their lifetimes. Some TDEs peak predominantly at X-ray energies while others radiate chiefly at UV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Lars Lund Thomsen , Tom Kwan , Lixin Dai , Samantha Wu , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We select seventy tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates among X-ray transients discovered during the eROSITA all-sky surveys in the Eastern Galactic hemisphere between December 2020 and February 2022 (eRASS1--5). We cross-match each X-ray…

We study X-ray bright tidal disruption events (TDE), close to the peak of their emission, with the intention of understanding the evolution of their light curves and spectra. Candidate TDE are identified by searching for soft X-ray flares…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 R. D. Saxton , A. M. Read , S. Komossa , P. Lira , K. D. Alexander , M. H. Wieringa

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

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

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

We survey the properties of stars destroyed in TDEs as a function of BH mass, stellar mass and evolutionary state, star formation history and redshift. For Mbh<10^7Msun, the typical TDE is due to a M*~0.3Msun M-dwarf, although the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 C. S. Kochanek

This paper outlines the scientific goals and observational strategies of the Mini-SiTian array. Mounted at Xinglong Observatory, the Mini-SiTian array consists of three 30 cm telescopes and has been in operation since 2022. The large field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Henggeng Han , Yang Huang , Beichuan Wang , Yongkang Sun , Cunshi Wang , Zhirui Li , Junjie Jin , Ningchen Sun , Kai Xiao , Min He , Hongrui Gu , Zexi Niu , Hong Wu , Jifeng Liu

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…