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 …

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 …

A Unified Theory of Jetted Tidal Disruption Events: From Promptly Escaping Relativistic to Delayed Transrelativistic Jets

O Teboul, BD Metzger - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Only a tiny fraction∼ 1% of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) generate powerful
relativistic jets evidenced by luminous hard X-ray and radio emissions. We propose that a …

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 …

Ubiquitous Late Radio Emission from Tidal Disruption Events

Y Cendes, E Berger, KD Alexander… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present radio observations of 23 optically discovered tidal disruption events (TDEs) on
timescales of∼ 500–3200 days postdiscovery. We detect nine new TDEs that did not have …

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 …

A detailed spectroscopic study of tidal disruption events

P Charalampopoulos, G Leloudas… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Spectroscopically, tidal disruption events (TDEs) are characterized by broad (∼ 10 4 km s−
1) emission lines and show a large diversity as well as different line profiles. After carefully …

An off-axis relativistic jet seen in the long lasting delayed radio flare of the TDE AT 2018hyz

I Sfaradi, P Beniamini, A Horesh, T Piran… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) AT 2018hyz exhibited a delayed radio flare
almost three years after the stellar disruption. Here, we report new radio observations of the …

Scary Barbie: An Extremely Energetic, Long-Duration Tidal Disruption Event Candidate Without a Detected Host Galaxy at z= 0.995

BM Subrayan, D Milisavljevic… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report multiwavelength observations and characterization of the ultraluminous transient
AT 2021lwx (ZTF20abrbeie; aka" Barbie") identified in the alert stream of the Zwicky …