Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

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 …

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 …

First tidal disruption events discovered by SRG/eROSITA: X-ray/optical properties and X-ray luminosity function at z < 0.6

S Sazonov, M Gilfanov, P Medvedev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present the first sample of tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered during the SRG all-
sky survey. These 13 events were selected among X-ray transients detected in the 0°< l< …

The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view

A De Rosa, C Vignali, T Bogdanović, PR Capelo… - New Astronomy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The quest for binary and dual supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the dawn of the multi-
messenger era is compelling. Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (AGN)–active SMBHs at …

EMRI+ TDE= QPE: periodic X-ray flares from star–disk collisions in galactic nuclei

I Linial, BD Metzger - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Roughly half of the quasiperiodic eruption (QPE) sources in galactic nuclei exhibit a
remarkably regular alternating" long-short" pattern of recurrence times between consecutive …

Tidal disruption event demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: volumetric rates, luminosity function, and implications for the local black hole mass function

Y Yao, V Ravi, S Gezari, S van Velzen… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We conduct a systematic tidal disruption event (TDE) demographics analysis using the
largest sample of optically selected TDEs. A flux-limited, spectroscopically complete sample …

Self-intersection of the fallback stream in tidal disruption events

W Lu, C Bonnerot - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We propose a semi-analytical model for the self-intersection of the fallback stream in tidal
disruption events (TDEs). When the initial periapsis is less than about 15 gravitational radii …

Evidence for rapid disc formation and reprocessing in the X-ray bright tidal disruption event candidate AT 2018fyk

T Wevers, DR Pasham, S van Velzen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present optical spectroscopic and Swift UVOT/XRT observations of the X-ray and
UV/optical bright tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT 2018fyk/ASASSN–18ul …

On the mass and luminosity functions of tidal disruption flares: rate suppression due to black hole event horizons

S van Velzen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole is expected to yield a luminous flare of
thermal emission. About two dozen of these stellar tidal disruption flares (TDFs) may have …