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 …

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 …

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

I Andreoni, MW Coughlin, DA Perley, Y Yao, W Lu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy that are released when
supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes too …

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 Swift/BAT hard X-ray transient monitor

HA Krimm, ST Holland, RHD Corbet… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) hard X-ray transient monitor provides
near real-time coverage of the X-ray sky in the energy range 15–50 keV. The BAT observes …

A systematic analysis of the X-ray emission in optically selected tidal disruption events: observational evidence for the unification of the optically and X-ray-selected …

M Guolo, S Gezari, Y Yao, S van Velzen… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic analysis of the X-ray emission of a sample of 17 optically selected,
X-ray-detected tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered between 2014 and 2021. The X …

[HTML][HTML] Tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes: Status of observations

S Komossa - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Stars in the immediate vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be ripped apart by
the tidal forces of the black hole. The subsequent accretion of the stellar material causes a …

A continuum of H-to He-rich tidal disruption candidates with a preference for E+ A galaxies

I Arcavi, A Gal-Yam, M Sullivan, YC Pan… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) archival search for blue
transients that lie in the magnitude range between" normal" core-collapse and …

Rates of stellar tidal disruption as probes of the supermassive black hole mass function

NC Stone, BD Metzger - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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≈ 200) in order to …

Six months of multiwavelength follow-up of the tidal disruption candidate ASASSN-14li and implied TDE rates from ASAS-SN

TWS Holoien, CS Kochanek, JL Prieto… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present ground-based and Swift photometric and spectroscopic observations of the
candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-14li, found at the centre of PGC 043234 (d≃ …