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Supermassive black holes disrupt passing stars, producing outbursts called tidal disruption events (TDEs). TDEs have recently gained attention due to their unique dynamics and emission processes, which are still not fully understood.…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star enters the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If the star only grazes the tidal radius, a fraction of the stellar mass will be accreted in a partial TDE (pTDE). The remainder…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), in which stars are gravitationally disrupted as they pass close to the supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, are potentially important probes of strong gravity and accretion physics. Most TDEs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-10 C. Tadhunter , R. Spence , M. Rose , J. Mullaney , P. Crowther

We present JWST/NIRSpec and NIRCam observations of the first optically selected off-nuclear tidal disruption event (TDE), AT 2024tvd, along with Keck/KCWI integral field unit spectroscopy. The spectra show broad H and He emission lines that…

We discuss the possible association of an astrophysical neutrino (IC220405B) with the recently reported, extremely energetic tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT2021lwx (ZTF20abrbeie, aka ``Scary Barbie'') at redshift $z=0.995$.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-11 Chengchao Yuan , Walter Winter , Cecilia Lunardini

We present a systematic analysis of the radio properties of an X-ray selected sample of tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates discovered by the eROSITA telescope. We find radio sources coincident with half of the transient events (11…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 A. J. Goodwin , M. Burn , G. E. Anderson , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , I. Grotova , P. Baldini , Z. Liu , A. Malyali , A. Rau , M. Salvato

Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel class of transients recently discovered in a few extragalactic nuclei. It has been suggested that a QPE can be produced by a main-sequence star undergoing repeated partial disruptions by the tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Chunyang Cao , F. K. Liu , Xian Chen , Shuo Li

Context: Some apparently quiescent supermassive black holes (BHs) at centers of galaxies show quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) in the X-ray band, the nature of which is still unknown. A possible origin for the eruptions is an accretion disk,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Anna Chashkina , Omer Bromberg , Amir Levinson , Ehud Nakar

We present O$-$C (``observed minus calculated'') timing analysis of the quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) source eRO-QPE2 with a multi-mission X-ray campaign, which includes 32 observed eruptions spanning a month (i.e. 325 QPE cycles). In…

We present the first sample of tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered during the SRG all-sky survey. These 13 events were selected among X-ray transients detected in the 0<l<180 deg hemisphere by eROSITA during its second sky survey (10…

We report the timing results with Insight-HXMT observations of X-ray binary IGR J19294+1816 during its 2019 Type I outburst at the decline phase shortly following its peak. We analyze the light curves and power density spectrum (PDS) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-09 Wen Yang , Wei Wang

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. More and more analyses show that QPEs are the result of collisions between a stellar mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Cong Zhou , Yuhe Zeng , Zhen Pan

Millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz QPOs) observed in neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries (NS LMXBs) are generally explained as marginally stable thermonuclear burning on the neutron star surface. We report the discovery of mHz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Kaho Tse , Duncan K. Galloway , Yi Chou , Alexander Heger , Hung-En Hsieh

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recently discovered transients of unknown nature occurring near supermassive black holes, which feature bright X-ray bursts separated by hours to days. A promising model for QPEs is the star-disc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Taj Jankovič , Clément Bonnerot , Sergey Karpov , Aleksej Jurca

Repeating partial tidal disruption events (pTDEs) provide a direct probe of stellar orbits and episodic mass loss around supermassive black holes, but robust identification requires multi-band and multi-epoch evidence. %consistent with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Po Ma , Shao-Yu Fu , Linhui Wu , Wei-Hua Lei , Qiang Yuan

The origin of the recently discovered new class of transients, X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), remains a puzzle. Due to their periodicity and association with active galactic nuclei (AGN), it is natural to relate these eruptions to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltán Haiman

We present optical spectropolarimetry of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2019qiz on days $+0$ and $+29$ relative to maximum brightness. Continuum polarization, which informs the shape of the electron-scattering surface, was found to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Kishore C. Patra , Wenbin Lu , Thomas G. Brink , Yi Yang , Alexei V. Filippenko , Sergiy S. Vasylyev

X-ray and $\gamma$-ray observations by the Swift satellite revealed that a fraction of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have relativistic jets. Jetted TDEs have been considered as potential sources of very high-energy cosmic-rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-03 Nicholas Senno , Kohta Murase , Peter Meszaros

AT 2018hyz (=ASASSN-18zj) is a tidal disruption event (TDE) located in the nucleus of a quiescent E+A galaxy at a redshift of $z = 0.04573$, first detected by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). We present optical+UV…