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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a means to probe the low end of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass distribution, as they are only observable below the Hills mass ($\lesssim 10^8$ M$_\odot$). Here we attempt to calibrate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Paige Ramsden , Daniel Lanning , Matt Nicholl , Sean L. McGee

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can uncover the quiescent black holes (BHs) at the center of galaxies and also offer a promising method to study them. In a partial TDE (PTDE), the BH's tidal force cannot fully disrupt the star, so the…

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

In addition to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the central parsec of the Milky Way hosts over a hundred of massive, high velocity young stars whose existence, and organisation of a subset of them in one, or possibly two, mis-aligned…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Rosalba Perna , Evgeni Grishin

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

In interacting galaxies, strong tidal forces disturb the global morphology of the progenitors and give birth to the long stellar, gaseous and dusty tails often observed. In addition to this destructive effect, tidal forces can morph into a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-03 Florent Renaud

We perform a comprehensive study of the X-ray emission from 70 transient sources which have been classified as a tidal disruption event (TDE) in the literature. We explore the properties of these candidates using nearly three decades of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Katie Auchettl , James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We present a study on the evolution of transitional dwarf galaxies, specifically dwarf lenticulars (dS0s) and early-type dwarfs with blue cores (ETdG(bc)s), driven by environmental processes in the Virgo cluster utilizing the Extended Virgo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-27 Suk Kim , Soo-Chang Rey , Youngdae Lee

Generally, merger likelihood increases in denser environments; however, the large relative velocities at the centres of dense clusters are expected to reduce the likelihood of mergers for satellite galaxies. Tidal features probe the recent…

Time domain optical surveys have discovered roughly a dozen candidate stellar tidal disruption flares in the last five years, and future surveys like the {\it Large Synoptic Survey Telescope} will likely find hundreds to thousands more.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-30 Nicholas C. Stone , Sjoert van Velzen

The hierarchical galaxy formation model predicts supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) in galactic nuclei. Due to the gas poor environment and the limited spatial resolution in observations they may hide in the center of many a galaxy.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Shuo Li , Peter Berczik , Xian Chen , F. K. Liu , Rainer Spurzem , Yu Qiu

Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) probe material ejected by the disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), uniquely tracing the formation and evolution of jets and outflows, revealing details of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Kate D. Alexander , Sjoert van Velzen , Assaf Horesh , B. Ashley Zauderer

Tidal features provide signatures of recent galaxy mergers, offering insights into the role of mergers in galaxy evolution. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will allow for an unprecedented…

We explore the rates of tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars by supermassive black holes (SBHs) in galactic nuclei formed in mergers followed by a formation and coalescence of a binary SBH. Such systems initially have a deficit of stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

In a dense stellar environment, such as the core of a globular cluster (GC), dynamical interactions with black holes (BHs) are expected to lead to a variety of astrophysical transients. Here we explore tidal disruption events (TDEs) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Kyle Kremer , Wenbin Lu , Carl L. Rodriguez , Mitchell Lachat , Frederic Rasio

Observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) show signs of Nitrogen enrichment reminiscent of other astrophysical sources such as active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star-forming galaxies. Given that TDEs probe the gas from a single star, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-10 Brenna Mockler , Monica Gallegos-Garcia , Ylva Götberg , Jon Miller , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

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

With the sample of observed tidal disruption events (TDEs) now reaching several tens, distinct spectroscopic classes have emerged: TDEs with only hydrogen lines (TDE-H), only helium lines (TDE-He), or hydrogen in combination with He II and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Matt Nicholl , Daniel Lanning , Paige Ramsden , Brenna Mockler , Andy Lawrence , Phil Short , Evan J. Ridley

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is disrupted by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, and these events produce bright multi-wavelength flares. Polarimetric measurements of TDEs allow us to disentangle the geometry…

Context: Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are divided into slow and fast rotators (FRs and SRs) according to the degree of ordered rotation of their stellar populations. Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations indicate that galaxies form as FRs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Michal Bílek , Pierre-Alain Duc , Elisabeth Sola

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) have traditionally been discovered in optical sky surveys through targeted searches of nuclear transients. However, it is expected that some TDEs will occur outside the galaxy nucleus, arising from wandering…