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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

Resonant excitations of $f$-modes in binary neutron star coalescences influence the gravitational waves (GWs) emission in both quasicircular and highly eccentric mergers and can deliver information on the star interior. Most models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars are destroyed by supermassive black holes and are among the brightest nuclear transients. It has been thought that strong relativistic effects rapidly dissipate orbital energy and produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Ho-Sang Chan , Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran

Close-by planets may excite various kinds of oscillations in their host stars through their time-varying tidal potential. Magnetostrophic oscillations with a frequency much smaller than the stellar rotation frequency have recently been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 A. F. Lanza

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…

In the cores of dense stellar clusters, close gravitational encounters between binary and single stars can frequently occur. Using the Tsunami code, we computed the outcome of a large number of binary-single interactions involving two black…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Lucas Hellström , Abbas Askar , Alessandro A. Trani , Mirek Giersz , Ross P. Church , Johan Samsing

In some galaxies, the stars orbiting the supermassive black hole take the form of an eccentric nuclear disk, in which every star is on a coherent, apsidally-aligned orbit. The most famous example of an eccentric nuclear disk is the double…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Ann-Marie Madigan , Andrew Halle , Mackenzie Moody , Mike McCourt , Chris Nixon , Heather Werkne

We present a first-principles theory of Resonant Relaxation (RR) of a low mass stellar system orbiting a more massive black hole (MBH). We first extend the kinetic theory of Gilbert (1968) to include the Keplerian field of a black hole of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 S. Sridhar , Jihad R. Touma

Models for tidal disruption events (TDEs) in which a supermassive black hole disrupts a star commonly assume that the highly eccentric streams of bound stellar debris promptly form a circular accretion disk at the pericenter scale. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Gilad Svirski , Tsvi Piran , Julian Krolik

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

Stellar oscillation under the combined influences of incident gravitational wave and radiation loss is studied in a simple toy model. The star is approximated as a uniform density ellipsoid in the Newtonian gravity including radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasufumi Kojima , Hajime Tanimoto

Two-body relaxation may drive stars onto near-radial orbits around a massive black hole, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE). In some circumstances, stars are unlikely to undergo a single terminal disruption, but rather to have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Luca Broggi , Nicholas C. Stone , Taeho Ryu , Elisa Bortolas , Massimo Dotti , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

We study tidal disruption events (TDEs) and compact object inspirals in nuclear star clusters (NSCs) hosting a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), focusing on their role in SMBH growth. Using the STARDISK version of the direct N-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Philip Cho , Kai Wu , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Taras Panamarev , Rainer Spurzem

Vector resonant relaxation (VRR) is known to be the fastest gravitational process that shapes the geometry of stellar orbits in nuclear star clusters. This leads to the realignment of the orbital planes on the corresponding VRR time scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Gergely Máthé , Ákos Szölgyén , Bence Kocsis

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

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) destroys a star. For TDEs in which the star enters deep within the tidal radius, such that the ratio of the tidal radius to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Suman Kumar Kundu , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

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

After the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole, disrupted stellar debris can fall back to the hole at a rate significantly exceeding its Eddington limit. To understand how black hole mass affects the duration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-09 Samantha Wu , Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon

We simulate the nonlinear hydrodynamical evolution of tidally-excited inertial waves in convective envelopes of rotating stars and giant planets modelled as spherical shells containing incompressible, viscous and adiabatically-stratified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-07 Aurélie Astoul , Adrian J. Barker

Accretion of stars on massive black holes (MBHs) can feed MBHs and generate tidal disruption events (TDEs). We introduce a new physically motivated model to self-consistently treat TDEs in cosmological simulations, and apply it to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Hugo Pfister , Jane Dai , Marta Volonteri , Katie Auchettl , Maxime Trebitsch , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz