Reverberation in tidal disruption events: dust echoes, coronal emission lines, multi-wavelength cross-correlations, and QPOs

S van Velzen, DR Pasham, S Komossa, L Yan… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) are typically discovered by transient emission due to
accretion or shocks of the stellar debris. Yet this luminous flare can be reprocessed by gas …

ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope

Y Shvartzvald, E Waxman, A Gal-Yam… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be
launched to geostationary orbit in 2027. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly …

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 …

Establishing accretion flares from supermassive black holes as a source of high-energy neutrinos

S van Velzen, R Stein, M Gilfanov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The origin of cosmic high-energy neutrinos remains largely unexplained. For high-energy
neutrino alerts from IceCube, a coincidence with time-variable emission has been seen for …

The scientific payload of the ultraviolet transient astronomy satellite (ULTRASAT)

S Ben-Ami, Y Shvartzvald, E Waxman… - … 2022: Ultraviolet to …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is a space-borne near UV
telescope with an unprecedented large field of view (200 deg 2). The mission, led by the …

Dynamical unification of tidal disruption events

LL Thomsen, TM Kwan, L Dai, SC Wu… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The∼ 100 tidal disruption events (TDEs) observed so far exhibit a wide range of emission
properties both at peak and over their lifetimes. Some TDEs radiate predominantly at X-ray …

Late-time HST UV and optical observations of AT 2018cow: extracting a cow from its background

A Inkenhaag, PG Jonker, AJ Levan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The bright, blue, rapidly evolving AT 2018cow is a well-studied peculiar extragalactic
transient. Despite an abundance of multiwavelength data, there still is no consensus on the …

Radio emission of tidal disruption events from wind–cloud interaction

DF Bu, L Chen, G Mou, E Qiao… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Winds can be launched in tidal disruption event (TDE). It has been proposed that the winds
can interact with the cloud surrounding the black hole, produce bow shocks, accelerate …

Optical/UV emission in the Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-14li: implications of disc modelling

S Wen, PG Jonker, NC Stone… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We predict late-time optical/UV emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) from our slim
accretion disc model (Wen et al.) and explore the impact of the black hole mass M•, black …

The prospects of finding tidal disruption events with 2.5-m Wide-Field Survey Telescope based on mock observations

Z Lin, N Jiang, X Kong - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Optical time-domain surveys have been the dominant means of hunting for rare tidal
disruption events (TDEs) in the past decade and remarkably advanced the TDE study …