The Tidal Disruption Event AT2021ehb: Evidence of Relativistic Disk Reflection, and Rapid Evolution of the Disk–Corona System

Y Yao, W Lu, M Guolo, DR Pasham… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present X-ray, UV, optical, and radio observations of the nearby (≈ 78 Mpc) tidal
disruption event AT2021ehb/ZTF21aanxhjv during its first 430 days of evolution. AT2021ehb …

Common origin for black holes in both high mass X-ray binaries and gravitational-wave sources

K Belczynski, C Done, S Hagen, JP Lasota… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Black-hole (BH) high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) systems are likely to be the progenitors of
BH-BH mergers detected in gravitational waves by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK). Yet merging …

Magnetically dominated discs in tidal disruption events and quasi-periodic eruptions

K Kaur, NC Stone, S Gilbaum - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The classical radiation pressure instability has been a persistent theoretical feature of thin,
radiatively efficient accretion discs with accretion rates 1 per cent–100 per cent of the …

The analogous structure of accretion flows in supermassive and stellar mass black holes: new insights from faded changing-look quasars

JJ Ruan, SF Anderson, M Eracleous… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite their factor of∼ 10 8 difference in black hole mass, several lines of evidence
suggest possible similarities between black hole accretion flows in active galactic nuclei …

Revisiting UV/optical continuum time lags in AGN

ES Kammoun, L Robin, IE Papadakis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we present an updated version of our model (KYNXiltr) which considers
thermal reverberation of a standard Novikov–Thorne accretion disc illuminated by an X-ray …

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 …

Continuum-fitting the X-ray spectra of tidal disruption events

S Wen, PG Jonker, NC Stone… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a new model for X-ray emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs), applying
stationary general relativistic" slim disk" accretion solutions to supermassive black holes …

Mass, Spin, and Ultralight Boson Constraints from the Intermediate-mass Black Hole in the Tidal Disruption Event 3XMM J215022. 4–055108

S Wen, PG Jonker, NC Stone… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We simultaneously and successfully fit the multiepoch X-ray spectra of the tidal disruption
event (TDE) 3XMM J215022. 4− 055108 using a modified version of our relativistic slim disk …

Testing regular black holes with X-ray and GW data

S Riaz, S Shashank, R Roy… - … of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The presence of spacetime singularities in physically relevant solutions of the Einstein
Equations is normally interpreted as a symptom of the breakdown of classical general …

Application of the disk instability model to all quasiperiodic eruptions

X Pan, SL Li, X Cao - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
After the first quasiperiodic eruption (QPE; GSN 069) was reported in 2019, four other
sources have been identified as a QPE or a candidate. However, the physics behind QPEs …