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 …

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 …

Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event

M Nicholl, DR Pasham, A Mummery, M Guolo… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are luminous bursts of soft X-rays from the nuclei of
galaxies, repeating on timescales of hours to weeks,,,–. The mechanism behind these rare …

A mildly relativistic outflow launched two years after disruption in tidal disruption event AT2018hyz

Y Cendes, E Berger, KD Alexander… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present late-time radio/millimeter (as well as optical/UV and X-ray) detections of tidal
disruption event (TDE) AT2018hyz, spanning 970–1300 d after optical discovery. In …

Delayed appearance and evolution of coronal lines in the TDE AT2019qiz

P Short, A Lawrence, M Nicholl, M Ward… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star gets torn apart by a supermassive black
hole as it crosses its tidal radius. We present late-time optical and X-ray observations of the …

Multimessenger astronomy with black holes

DJ D'Orazio, M Charisi, A Derdzinski, L Zwick… - Black Holes in the Era of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most, if not all, galaxies harbor at their center a supermassive black hole (SMBH) that sculpts
the dynamics of objects inhabiting galactic nuclei. SMBH binaries (SMBHBs) are expected to …

An outflow powers the optical rise of the nearby, fast-evolving tidal disruption event AT2019qiz

M Nicholl, T Wevers, SR Oates… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
At 66 Mpc, AT2019qiz is the closest optical tidal disruption event (TDE) to date, with a
luminosity intermediate between the bulk of the population and the faint-and-fast event …

Discovery and follow-up of ASASSN-19dj: an X-ray and UV luminous TDE in an extreme post-starburst galaxy

JT Hinkle, TWS Holoien, K Auchettl… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present observations of ASASSN-19dj, a nearby tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered
in the post-starburst galaxy KUG 0810+ 227 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for …

Systematic light-curve modelling of TDEs: statistical differences between the spectroscopic classes

M Nicholl, D Lanning, P Ramsden… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
With the sample of observed tidal disruption events (TDEs) now reaching several tens,
distinct spectroscopic classes have emerged: TDEs with only hydrogen lines (TDE-H), only …

Fundamental scaling relationships revealed in the optical light curves of tidal disruption events

A Mummery, S van Velzen, E Nathan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present fundamental scaling relationships between properties of the optical/UV light
curves of tidal disruption events (TDEs) and the mass of the black hole that disrupted the …