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Evolutionary synthesis models for Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are presented that allow to have varying proportions of young stars formed in the merger-induced starburst and of stars from the merging spirals' disks. The specific…

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Rates of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) due to two-body relaxation are calculated using a large galaxy sample (N=146) in order to explore the sensitivity of the TDE rates to observational…

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Using HST/STIS observations, we present the highest-spatial-resolution spectroscopic study to date of four tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies, with the best observed being the post-starburst (PSB) host of ASASSN-14li. The stellar…

In the manuscript, effects of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are estimated on long-term AGN variability, to provide interesting clues to detect probable hidden TDEs in normal broad line AGN with apparent intrinsic variability which…

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This work explores a scenario for micro-tidal disruption events (TDEs) triggered by close encounters between high-speed white dwarfs (WDs) and stellar-mass black holes (sBHs) in galactic centers. In this model, a WD orbiting the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Xinyu Li , Houyi Sun , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Huan Yang

Dwarf galaxies (M*<10^9 Msun) are key drivers of mass assembly in high mass galaxies, but relatively little is understood about the assembly of dwarf galaxies themselves. Using the \textsc{NewHorizon} cosmological simulation (40 pc spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 G. Martin , R. A. Jackson , S. Kaviraj , H. Choi , J. E. G. Devriendt , Y. Dubois , T. Kimm , K. Kraljic , S. Peirani , C. Pichon , M. Volonteri , S. K. Yi

The capture and disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), and the formation and coalescence of binaries, are inevitable consequences of the presence of SMBHs at the cores of galaxies. Pairs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and…

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We present a study of tidal debris associated with 126 nearby red galaxies selected from the MUSYC and NDWFS surveys. In the full sample 67 galaxies (53%) show morphological signatures of tidal interactions, consisting of broad fans of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pieter G. van Dokkum

The evolution of main sequence binaries resided in the galactic centre is influenced a lot by the central super massive black hole (SMBH). Due to this perturbation, the stars in a dense environment are likely to experience mergers or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Bin Liu , Yi-Han Wang , Ye-Fei Yuan

The study of morphology in galaxies offers a convenient and quantitative method to measure the shapes and characteristics of galaxy light distribution that reflect the evolutionary history. For AGN-host dwarf galaxies, however, there is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Jie Tian , Yinghe Zhao , Xiejin Li , Jinming Bai

Isolated early-type galaxies (iETGs) are evolving in unusually poor environments for this morphological family, which is typical of cluster inhabitants. We investigate the mechanisms driving the evolution of these galaxies. Several studies…

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(Abridged) Interacting galaxies are well-known for their high star formation rates and rich star cluster populations, but the rapidly changing tidal field can also efficiently destroy clusters. We use numerical simulations of merging disc…

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We study the tidal evolution of galaxies in the most massive cluster of the IllustrisTNG-100 simulation. For the purpose of this work we select 112 galaxies with the largest stellar masses at present and follow their properties in time.…

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Evolutionary synthesis models for Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are presented that allow to have varying proportions of young stars formed in the merger-induced starburst and of stars from the merging spirals' disks. Comparing model grids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uta Fritze - v. Alvensleben , Pierre - Alain Duc

Deep surveys conducted during the past decades have shown that galaxies in the distant universe are generally of more irregular shapes, and are disky in appearance and in their star formation rate, compared to galaxies in similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiaolei Zhang , Ronald J. Buta

In this work, we use the Jansky VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) to compile the first sample of six radio-selected tidal disruption events (TDEs) with transient optical counterparts. While we still lack the statistics to do detailed population…

Interacting galaxies favor the formation of star clusters but are also suspected to affect their evolution through an intense and rapidly varying tidal field. Treating this complex behaviour remains out-of-reach of (semi-)analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Florent Renaud , Mark Gieles

As the sensitivity of gravitational wave (GW) instruments improves and new networks start operating, hundreds of merging stellar-mass black holes (SBHs) and intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are expected to be observed in the next few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Giacomo Fragione , Rosalba Perna , Abraham Loeb

Once per 10,000-100,000 years, an unlucky star may experience a close encounter with a supermassive black hole (SMBH), partially or fully tearing apart the star in an exceedingly brief, bright interaction called a tidal disruption event…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Rewa Clark Bush , Samantha C. Wu , Rosa Wallace Everson , Ricardo Yarza , Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Tidal disruption event (TDE) rates in active galactic nuclei (AGN) consistently exceed predictions from two-body relaxation, particularly in post-starburst and green valley galaxies. We explain this excess with a new mechanism: a sweeping…

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