Tidal disruption events

S Gezari - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The concept of stars being tidally ripped apart and consumed by a massive black hole
(MBH) lurking in the center of a galaxy first captivated theorists in the late 1970s. The …

Optical-ultraviolet tidal disruption events

S van Velzen, TWS Holoien, F Onori, T Hung… - Space science …, 2020 - Springer
The existence of optical-ultraviolet Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) could be considered
surprising because their electromagnetic output was originally predicted to be dominated by …

The final season reimagined: 30 tidal disruption events from the ZTF-I Survey

E Hammerstein, S van Velzen, S Gezari… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) offer a unique way to study dormant black holes. While the
number of observed TDEs has grown thanks to the emergence of wide-field surveys in the …

The all-sky automated survey for supernovae (ASAS-SN) light curve server v1. 0

CS Kochanek, BJ Shappee, KZ Stanek… - Publications of the …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is working toward
imaging the entire visible sky every night to a depth of $ V\sim 17$ mag. The present data …

Seventeen tidal disruption events from the first half of ZTF survey observations: entering a new era of population studies

S Van Velzen, S Gezari, E Hammerstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
While tidal disruption events (TDEs) have long been heralded as laboratories for the study of
quiescent black holes, the small number of known TDEs and uncertainties in their emission …

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy–an overview

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration:… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark
Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the …

Radio properties of tidal disruption events

KD Alexander, S van Velzen, A Horesh… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Weighing black holes using tidal disruption events

B Mockler, J Guillochon… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
While once rare, observations of stars being tidally disrupted by supermassive black holes
are quickly becoming commonplace. To continue to learn from these events, it is necessary …

New physical insights about tidal disruption events from a comprehensive observational inventory at X-ray wavelengths

K Auchettl, J Guillochon… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a comprehensive study of the X-ray emission from 70 transient sources that
have been classified as tidal disruption events (TDEs) in the literature. We explore the …

The ASAS-SN catalogue of variable stars III: variables in the southern TESS continuous viewing zone

T Jayasinghe, KZ Stanek, CS Kochanek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) provides long-baseline
(∼ 4 yr) light curves for sources brighter than V≲ 17 mag across the whole sky. The …