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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

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

Massive black holes at galaxy center may tear apart a star when the star passes occasionally within the disruption radius, which is the so-called tidal disruption event(TDE). Most TDEs radiate with thermal emission resulted from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 Fang-Kun Peng , Qing-Wen Tang , Xiang-Yu Wang

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

While once rare, observations of stars being tidally disrupted by supermassive black holes are quickly becoming commonplace. To continue to learn from these events it is necessary to robustly and systematically compare our growing number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Brenna Mockler , James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We study the emission properties of thermonuclear explosions in a helium white dwarf (WD) tidal disruption event (TDE). We consider a TDE where a 0.2 $M_{\odot}$ helium WD is disrupted by a $10^{2.5}\,M_{\odot}$ intermediate-mass black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-24 Kojiro Kawana , Keiichi Maeda , Naoki Yoshida , Ataru Tanikawa

XMM-Newton EPIC observations have revealed a bright point-like X-ray source in the nearby Magellanic-type galaxy NGC 55. At the distance of NGC 55, the maximum observed X-ray luminosity of the source, designated as XMMU J001528.9-391319, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A-M. Stobbart , T. P. Roberts , R. S. Warwick

We present an analysis of the optical and UV properties of AT 2020wey, a faint and fast tidal disruption event (TDE) at 124.3 Mpc. The light curve of the object peaked at an absolute magnitude of $M_{g} = -17.45$ mag and a maximum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Panos Charalampopoulos , Miika Pursiainen , Giorgos Leloudas , Iair Arcavi , Megan Newsome , Steve Schulze , Jamison Burke , Matt Nicholl

Tidal disruptions of stars by stellar-mass black holes are expected to occur frequently in dense star clusters. Building upon previous studies that performed hydrodynamic simulations of these encounters, we explore the formation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Kyle Kremer , Brenna Mockler , Anthony L. Piro , James C. Lombardi

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 present optical/UV photometric and spectroscopic observations, as well as X-ray and radio follow-up, of the extraordinary event AT2019cmw. With a peak bolometric luminosity of ~$\mathrm{10^{45.6}\,erg\,s^{-1}}$, it is one of the most…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are luminous black hole (BH) transient sources, which are detected mainly in X-ray and optical bands. It is generally believed that the X-ray emission in TDEs is produced by an accretion disc formed as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-06 Erlin Qiao , Yongxin Wu , Yiyang Lin , Meng Guo , Jifeng Liu , Chenlei Guo , Chichuan Jin , Ning Jiang

AT2022cmc was recently reported as the first on-axis jetted tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the last decade, and the fourth on-axis jetted TDE candidate known so far. In this work, we present NuSTAR hard X-ray (3--30 keV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-22 Yuhan Yao , Wenbin Lu , Fiona Harrison , S. R. Kulkarni , Suvi Gezari , Muryel Guolo , S. Bradley Cenko , Anna Y. Q. Ho

We present the optical and infrared properties of a sample of 24 radio transient sources discovered in the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). Previous studies of their radio emission showed that these sources resemble young…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , D. Kozieł-Wierzbowska , D. Stern , A. Krauze , N. Zafar , T. Connor , M. J. Graham

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole and is destroyed by tidal gravitational forces. Radio observations of TDEs trace synchrotron emission from outflowing material that may be…

We report the serendipitous discovery of a bright point source flare in the Abell cluster 1795 with archival EUVE and Chandra observations. Assuming the EUVE emission is associated with the Chandra source, the X-ray 0.5-7 keV flux declined…

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 events (TDEs) offer a unique opportunity to study a single super-massive black hole (SMBH) under feeding conditions that change over timescales of days or months. However, the primary mechanism for generating luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Brenna Mockler , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We report on multi-wavelength observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate eRASSt J074426.3+291606 (J0744), located in the nucleus of a previously quiescent galaxy at $z=0.0396$. J0744 was first detected as a new, ultra-soft…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 A. Malyali , Z. Liu , A. Merloni , A. Rau , J. Buchner , S. Ciroi , F. Di Mille , I. Grotova , T. Dwelly , K. Nandra , M. Salvato , D. Homan , M. Krumpe