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In this paper, the third in this series, we continue our study of tidal disruption events of main-sequence stars by a non-spinning $10^{6}~\rm{M}_\odot$ supermassive black hole. Here we focus on the outcomes of partial disruptions. As the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

Cloud-cloud collisions in splash bridges produced in gas-rich disk galaxy collisions offer a brief but interesting environment to study the effects of shocks and turbulence on star formation rates in the diffuse IGM, far from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-19 Travis Yeager , Curtis Struck , Phil Appleton

A tidal disruption event (TDE) takes place when a star passes near enough to a massive black hole to be disrupted. About half the star's matter is given elliptical trajectories with large apocenter distances, the other half is unbound. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-08 Tsvi Piran , Gilad Svirski , Julian Krolik , Roseanne M. Cheng , Hotaka Shiokawa

We investigate misaligned accretion discs formed after tidal disruption events that occur when a star encounters a supermassive black hole. We employ the linear theory of warped accretion discs to find the shape of a disc for which the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Xiang-Gruess , P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou

When two plasmas collide, their interaction can be mediated by collisionless plasma instabilities or binary collisions between particles of each shell. By comparing the maximum growth rate of the collisionless instabilities with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Antoine Bret , Asaf Pe'er

Using one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations including interstellar heating, cooling, and thermal conduction, we investigate nonlinear evolution of gas flow across galactic spiral arms. We model the gas as a non-self-gravitating,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

The main challenge for understanding the fuelling of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei is not to account for the source of fuel, but rather to explain its delivery from the boundaries of the black hole sphere of influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Juan Manuel Carmona-Loaiza , Monica Colpi , Massimo Dotti , Riccardo Valdarnini

Strong interactions between jets and stellar winds at binary system spatial scales could occur in high-mass microquasars. We study here, mainly from a dynamical but also a radiative point of view, the collision between a dense stellar wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Perucho , V. Bosch-Ramon

The tidal disruption of stars in the vicinity of massive black holes is discussed in the context of $\Lambda$-gravity. The latter provides an explanation to the Hubble tension as a possible consequence of two Hubble flows, the local and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-09 A. Stepanian , Sh. Khlghatyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

Isolated stellar-mass BH accrete gas, often at supersonic speeds, and can form outflows that can influence the accreted gas. The latter process, known as mechanical feedback, can significantly affect the accretion rate. We use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Valenti Bosch-Ramon

The tidal field of a black hole can turn a star into a gas stream whose orbit can precess, especially if the a black hole is rapidly spinning. In this work, we investigate the impact of precession on the light curves of tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Diego Calderón , Ondřej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Paul C. Duffell , Stephan Rosswog

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

We consider how dynamical friction acts on black holes that receive a velocity kick while located at the center of a gravitational potential, analogous to a star cluster, due to either a natal kick or the anisotropic emission of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Jeremy J. Webb , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Abhishek Singh , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan , Jillian Bellovary

Velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) in stellar streams from globular clusters (GCs) is sensitive to heating by Galactic substructure, including dark matter (DM) subhalos. Recent studies have compared $\sigma$ in observed and modeled streams to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-20 Newlin C. Weatherford , Ana Bonaca

Many astrophysical environments, from star clusters and globular clusters to the disks of Active Galactic Nuclei, are characterized by frequent interactions between stars and the compact objects that they leave behind. Here, using a suite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Taeho Ryu , Rosalba Perna , Yihan Wang

We present results of numerical simulation of inviscid thick accretion disks and wind flows around black holes. We use Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique for this purpose. Formation of thick disks are found to be preceded by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Diego Molteni , G. Lanzafame , S. K. Chakrabarti

In a tidal disruption event (TDE), a star is destroyed by the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) to produce a stream of debris, some of which accretes onto the SMBH and creates a luminous flare. The distribution of mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-15 Julia Fancher , Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon

The centers of galaxies host a supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense stellar cluster. The cluster is expected to develop mass segregation, in which gravitational scatterings among the stars cause heavier objects to sink closer to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-15 Shmuel Balberg

Centers of galaxies host both a supermassive black hole and a dense stellar cluster. Such an environment should lead to stellar collisions, possibly at very high velocities so that the total energy involved is of the same order as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-02 Shmuel Balberg , Gilad Yassur

We performed a numerical study of the dynamics of massive particles orbiting black holes and naked singularities in the Reissner-Nordstr\"om geometry. We modeled a stream of particles with a constant angular momentum and with a range of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Angelos Karakonstantakis , Włodek Kluźniak , Maciek Wielgus