English
Related papers

Related papers: Resolving the (Debate About) Nozzle Shocks in Tida…

200 papers

Stars embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks or captured by them may scatter onto the supermassive black hole (SMBH), leading to a tidal disruption event (TDE). Using the moving-mesh hydrodynamics simulations with {\small AREPO},…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Taeho Ryu , Barry McKernan , Saavik Ford , Matteo Cantiello , Matthew Graham , Daniel Stern , Nathan W. C Leigh

Stars orbiting supermassive black holes can generate recurring accretion flares in repeating partial tidal disruption events (TDEs). Here we develop an efficient formalism for analyzing the time-dependent response of a star to the removal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Ananya Bandopadhyay , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

In nuclei of galaxies strong tidal forces can destroy stars passing within a critical distance from the central super-massive black hole (SMBH). Observational signatures of tidal disruption events (TDEs) depend on the environment around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-29 Marcel Stolc , Vladimir Karas

The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) is a highly energetic event with consequences dependent on the degree to which the star plunges inside the SMBH's tidal sphere. We introduce a new analytic model for tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Nicholas Stone , Re'em Sari , Abraham Loeb

Stars passing too close to a super massive black hole (SMBH) can produce tidal disruption events (TDEs). Since the resulting stellar debris can produce an electromagnetic flare, TDEs are believed to probe the presence of single SMBHs in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-21 Giacomo Fragione , Nathan Leigh

The tidal disruption of planets by their host stars represents a growing area of interest in transient astronomy, offering insights into the final stages of planetary system evolution. We model the hydrodynamic evolution and predict the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Matías Montesinos , Sergei Nayakshin , Vardan Elbakyan , Zhen Guo , Mario Sucerquia , Amelia Bayo , Zhaohuan Zhu

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close enough to supermassive black holes to be torn apart by tidal forces. Traditionally, these events are studied with computationally intensive hydrodynamical simulations. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Zihan Zhou , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Irvin Martínez-Rodríguez , Jingping Li

The structure of stars orbiting close to supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be dramatically modified by tidal heating, which can in principle dissipate an energy much larger than the stellar binding energy. We use analytic models and MESA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-19 Philippe Z. Yao , Eliot Quataert

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

In dense star clusters, such as globular and open clusters, dynamical interactions between stars and black holes (BHs) can be extremely frequent, leading to various astrophysical transients. Close encounters between a star and a stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Yi-Han Wang , Rosalba Perna , Philip J. Armitage

We study the mass fallback rate of tidally disrupted stars on marginally bound and unbound orbits around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) by performing three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations with three key…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Gwanwoo Park , Kimitake Hayasaki

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can uncover the quiescent supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of galaxies. After the disruption of a star by a SMBH, the highly elliptical orbit of the debris stream will be gradually circularized…

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

We run a suite of hydrodynamics simulations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) of a white dwarf (WD) by a black hole (BH) with a wide range of WD/BH masses and orbital parameters. We implement nuclear reactions to study nucleosynthesis and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Kojiro Kawana , Ataru Tanikawa , Naoki Yoshida

The evolution of the stellar debris after tidal disruption due to the super massive black hole's tidal force is difficult to solve numerically because of the large dynamical range of the problem. We developed an SPH (Smoothed Particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyung Mok Lee , Sungsoo S. Kim

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have long been hypothesized as valuable indicators of black holes, offering insight into their demographics and behaviour out to high redshift. TDEs have also enabled the discovery of a few Massive Black Holes…

We present the results of relativistic smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of tidal disruptions of stars by rotating supermassive black holes, for a wide range of impact parameters and black hole spins. For deep encounters, we find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Emanuel Gafton , Stephan Rosswog

Close encounters between stellar-mass black holes (BHs) and stars occur frequently in dense star clusters and in the disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Recent studies have shown that in highly eccentric close encounters, the star can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-24 Chengcheng Xin , Zoltan Haiman , Rosalba Perna , Yihan Wang , Taeho Ryu

Stars passing too close to a black hole can produce tidal disruption events (TDEs), when the tidal force across the star exceeds the gravitational force that binds it. TDEs have usually been discussed in relation to massive black holes that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 Giacomo Fragione , Nathan Leigh , Rosalba Perna , Bence Kocsis

Extragalactic nuclear transients that exhibit repeating outbursts can be modeled as the repeated dynamical interaction between bound stars and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). A subset of these transients, with recurrence timescales of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-06 Ananya Bandopadhyay , Eric R. Coughlin , Julia Fancher , C. J. Nixon , Dheeraj R. Pasham

The evolution of many close binary and multiple star systems is defined by phases of mass exchange and interaction. As these systems evolve into contact, tidal dissipation is not always sufficient to bring them into circular, synchronous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Morgan MacLeod , Michelle Vick , Abraham Loeb
‹ Prev 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 Next ›