Demographics of tidal disruption events with L-Galaxies-I. Volumetric TDE rates and the abundance of nuclear star clusters

M Polkas, S Bonoli, E Bortolas… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Stars can be ripped apart by tidal forces in the vicinity of a massive black hole (MBH),
causing luminous flares known as tidal disruption events (TDEs). These events could be …

Needle in a Haystack: Finding Supermassive Black Hole-related Flares in the Zwicky Transient Facility Public Survey

Y Dgany, I Arcavi, L Makrygianni… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Transient accretion events onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs), such as tidal disruption
events (TDEs), Bowen Fluorescence Flares (BFFs), and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), which …

Recurring tidal disruption events a decade apart in IRAS F01004-2237

L Sun, N Jiang, L Dou, X Shu, J Zhu, S Dong… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. In theory, recurring tidal disruption events (TDEs) may occur when a close stellar
binary encounters a supermassive black hole, if one star is captured and undergoes …

JWST NIRSpec Spectroscopy of the Remarkable Bright Galaxy GHZ2/GLASS-z12 at Redshift 12.34

M Castellano, L Napolitano, A Fontana… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We spectroscopically confirm the $ M_ {\rm UV}=-20.5$ mag galaxy GHZ2/GLASS-z12 to be
at redshift $ z= 12.34$. The source was selected via NIRCam photometry in GLASS-JWST …

A systematically-selected sample of luminous, long-duration, ambiguous nuclear transients

P Wiseman, RD Williams, I Arcavi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
We present a search for luminous, long-duration ambiguous nuclear transients (ANTs)
similar to the unprecedented discovery of the extreme, ambiguous event AT2021lwx with a> …

[HTML][HTML] Gleeok's Fire-breathing: Triple Flares of AT 2021aeuk within Five Years from the Active Galaxy SDSS J161259. 83+ 421940.3

DW Bao, WJ Guo, ZX Zhang, C Cheng… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a noteworthy transient AT 2021aeuk exhibiting three distinct optical flares
between 2018 and 2023. It is hosted in a radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy, with an …

The extreme coronal line emitter AT 2022fpx: Varying optical polarization properties and late-time X-ray flare

KII Koljonen, I Liodakis, E Lindfors… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Supermassive black holes disrupt passing stars, producing outbursts called tidal disruption
events (TDEs). TDEs have recently gained attention due to their unique dynamics and …

Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays from Neutrino-Emitting Tidal Disruption Events

P Plotko, W Winter, C Lunardini, C Yuan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19047, 2024 - arxiv.org
We revisit the Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECRs) production in Tidal Disruption
Events (TDEs) in the light of recent neutrino-TDE associations. We use an isotropically …

Back from the dead: AT2019aalc as a candidate repeating TDE in an AGN

PM Veres, A Franckowiak, S van Velzen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Context. To date, three nuclear transients have been associated with high-energy neutrino
events. These transients are generally thought to be powered by tidal disruptions of stars …

Mid-infrared echoes of ambiguous nuclear transients reveal high dust covering fractions: evidence for dusty tori

JT Hinkle - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Alongside the recent increase in discoveries of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have come an
increasing number of ambiguous nuclear transients (ANTs). These ANTs are characterized …