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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The birth of a relativistic jet following the disruption of a star by a cosmological black hole

DR Pasham, M Lucchini, T Laskar, BP Gompertz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A black hole can launch a powerful relativistic jet after it tidally disrupts a star. If this jet
fortuitously aligns with our line of sight, the overall brightness is Doppler boosted by several …

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 …

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 …

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 …