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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A unified model for tidal disruption events

L Dai, JC McKinney, N Roth… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past few years wide-field optical and UV transient surveys and X-ray telescopes have
allowed us to identify a few dozen candidate tidal disruption events (TDEs). While in theory …

X-ray properties of TDEs

R Saxton, S Komossa, K Auchettl, PG Jonker - Space Science Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Observational astronomy of tidal disruption events (TDEs) began with the detection of X-ray
flares from quiescent galaxies during the ROSAT all-sky survey of 1990–1991. The flares …

The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole

G Leloudas, M Fraser, NC Stone, S van Velzen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn
apart1. For a star with the mass of the Sun (M⊙) and a non-spinning black hole with a …

PS16dtm: a tidal disruption event in a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy

PK Blanchard, M Nicholl, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations of PS16dtm (also known as SN 2016ezh), a luminous transient that
occurred at the nucleus of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy hosting a 10 6 M⊙ black hole. The …

The X-ray through optical fluxes and line strengths of tidal disruption events

N Roth, D Kasen, J Guillochon… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) produced as radiation from black
hole accretion propagates through an extended, optically thick envelope formed from stellar …