The more the merrier: SRG/eROSITA discovers two further galaxies showing X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions

R Arcodia, Z Liu, A Merloni, A Malyali, A Rau… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel addition to the group of extragalactic
transients. With only a select number of known sources, and many more models published …

Quasi-periodic eruptions from mildly eccentric unstable mass transfer in galactic nuclei

W Lu, E Quataert - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We propose that the recently observed quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) in galactic nuclei
are produced by unstable mass transfer due to Roche lobe overflow of a low-mass main …

Monthly quasi-periodic eruptions from repeated stellar disruption by a massive black hole

PA Evans, CJ Nixon, S Campana… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, searches of archival X-ray data have revealed galaxies exhibiting nuclear
quasi-periodic eruptions with periods of several hours. These are reminiscent of the tidal …

Live to die another day: the rebrightening of AT 2018fyk as a repeating partial tidal disruption event

T Wevers, ER Coughlin, DR Pasham… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Stars that interact with supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be either completely or
partially destroyed by tides. In a partial tidal disruption event (TDE), the high-density core of …

[HTML][HTML] A New Population of Mid-infrared-selected Tidal Disruption Events: Implications for Tidal Disruption Event Rates and Host Galaxy Properties

M Masterson, K De, C Panagiotou, E Kara… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Most tidal disruption events (TDEs) are currently found in time-domain optical and soft X-ray
surveys, both of which are prone to significant obscuration. The infrared (IR), however, is a …

Repeating tidal disruptions in GSN 069: Long-term evolution and constraints on quasi-periodic eruptions' models

G Miniutti, M Giustini, R Arcodia, RD Saxton… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. GSN 069 is the first galactic nucleus where quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) have
been identified in December 2018. These are high-amplitude, soft X-ray bursts recurring …

X-ray eruptions every 22 days from the nucleus of a nearby galaxy

M Guolo, DR Pasham, M Zajaček, ER Coughlin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Galactic nuclei showing recurrent phases of activity and quiescence have recently been
discovered. Some have recurrence times as short as a few hours to a day and are known as …

Deciphering the extreme X-ray variability of the nuclear transient eRASSt J045650. 3− 203750-A likely repeating partial tidal disruption event

Z Liu, A Malyali, M Krumpe, D Homan… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. During its all-sky survey, the extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging
Telescope Array (eROSITA) on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory …

The rebrightening of a ROSAT-selected tidal disruption event: repeated weak partial disruption flares from a quiescent galaxy?

A Malyali, Z Liu, A Rau, I Grotova… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The ROSAT-selected tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate RX J133157. 6− 324319.7
(J1331) was detected in 1993 as a bright [0.2–2 keV flux of (1.0±0.1)× 10− 12 erg s− 1 cm …

Interacting stellar EMRIs as sources of quasi-periodic eruptions in galactic nuclei

BD Metzger, NC Stone, S Gilbaum - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A star that approaches a supermassive black hole (SMBH) on a circular extreme mass ratio
inspiral (EMRI) can undergo Roche lobe overflow (RLOF), resulting in a phase of long-lived …