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CSS100217 was a nuclear, rapid and luminous flare in a Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy, whose initial interpretation as a supernova is now debated between variability of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) or a tidal disruption event (TDE). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 G. Cannizzaro , A. J. Levan , S. van Velzen , G. Brown

We argue that the `changing look' AGN recently reported by LaMassa et al. could be a luminous flare produced by the tidal disruption of a super-solar mass star passing just a few gravitational radii outside the event horizon of a $\sim 10^8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 A. Merloni , T. Dwelly , M. Salvato , A. Georgakakis , J. Greiner , M. Krumpe , K. Nandra , G. Ponti , A. Rau

We report a high-redshift ($z=1.404$) tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate in SDSS J000118.70+003314.0 (SDSS J0001), which is a quasar with apparent broad Mg~{\sc ii} emission line. The long-term variability in its nine-year photometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-24 Ying Gu , Xue-Guang Zhang , Xing-Qian Chen , Xing Yang , En-Wei Liang

We report the discovery of a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) candidate occurring in the Active Galactic Nucleus SDSS J022700.77-042020.6. A sudden increase in flux of J0227-0420 during the second half of 2009 is clearly shown in the long-term…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-18 Zhu Liu , Dongyue Li , He-Yang Liu , Youjun Lu , Weimin Yuan , Liming Dou , Rong-Feng Shen

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

The tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole (MBH) is thought to produce a transient luminous event. Such tidal disruption events (TDEs) may play an important role in the detection and characterization of MBHs and probe the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Danor Aharon , Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

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

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs), made up of a dense concentrations of stars and the compact objects they leave behind, are ubiquitous in the central regions of galaxies, surrounding the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-28 Taeho Ryu , Rosalba Perna , Matteo Cantiello

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) mark a regime where traditional vacuum models fail to capture the full dynamics, especially due to interaction between stellar debris and pre-existing accretion disks. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Minghao Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Hongping Deng , Hengxiao Guo , Jingbo Sun

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

A star wandering too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) will be tidally disrupted. Previous studies of such "tidal disruption event" (TDE) mostly focus on the stellar debris that are bound to the system, because they give rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Xian Chen , Germán Gómez-Vargas , James Guillochon

In this letter, motivated by double-peaked broad Balmer emission lines probably related to tidal disruption events (TDEs), a potential TDE candidate is reported in SDSS J160536+134838 (=SDSS J1605) at $z\sim0.44$ having quasar-like spectrum…

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

A star entering the tidal sphere of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be partially stripped of mass, resulting in a partial tidal disruption event (TDE). Here we develop an analytical model for properties of these events, including the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-07 Ananya Bandopadhyay , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

We examine the tidal disruption event scenario to explain Sw 1644+57, a powerful and persistent X-ray source which suddenly became active as GRB 110328A. The precise localization at the center of a z=0.35 galaxy argues for activity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 J. K. Cannizzo , E. Troja , G. Lodato

We present and analyse a new tidal disruption event (TDE), AT2017eqx at redshift z=0.1089, discovered by Pan-STARRS and ATLAS. The position of the transient is consistent with the nucleus of its host galaxy; it peaks at a luminosity of $L…

The cooling envelope model for tidal disruption events (TDE) postulates that while the stellar debris streams rapidly dissipate their bulk kinetic energy (``circularize"), this does not necessarily imply rapid feeding of the supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Nikhil Sarin , Brian D. Metzger

CSS J102913+404220 is a peculiar narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy with an energetic nuclear optical outburst. We present a detailed analysis of its multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic observations covering a period of decade since…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 W. J. Zhang , X. W. Shu , Z. F. Sheng , L. M. Sun , L. M. Dou , N. Jiang , J. G. Wang , X. Y. Hu , Y. B. Wang , T. G. Wang

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a supermassive black hole disrupts a nearby passing star by tidal forces. The subsequent fallback accretion of the stellar debris results in a luminous transient outburst. Modeling the light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Zsófia V. Kovács-Stermeczky , József Vinkó

The event PS16dtm, which occured in the center of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy SDSS J015804.75-005221.8 (z = 0.080440), is one of the few candidates for a tidal disruption event in an already-acretting active galactic nucleus…

The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2022cmc represents the fourth known example of a relativistic jet produced by the tidal disruption of a stray star providing a unique probe of the formation and evolution of relativistic jets in otherwise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 T. Eftekhari , A. Tchekhovskoy , K. D. Alexander , E. Berger , R. Chornock , T. Laskar , R. Margutti , Y. Yao , Y. Cendes , S. Gomez , A. Hajela , D. R. Pasham
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