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 …

Partial, zombie, and full tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes

CJ Nixon, ER Coughlin, PR Miles - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present long-duration numerical simulations of the tidal disruption of stars modeled with
accurate stellar structures and spanning a range of pericenter distances, corresponding to …

The Eccentric Nature of Eccentric Tidal Disruption Events

M Cufari, ER Coughlin, CJ Nixon - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Upon entering the tidal sphere of a supermassive black hole, a star is ripped apart by tides
and transformed into a stream of debris. The ultimate fate of that debris, and the properties of …

Extreme accretion events: TDEs and changing‐look AGN

S Komossa, D Grupe - Astronomische Nachrichten, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a review of the topics of X‐ray stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) and
changing‐look active galactic nuclei (AGN). Stars approaching a supermassive black hole …

Stars Crushed by Black Holes. II. A Physical Model of Adiabatic Compression and Shock Formation in Tidal Disruption Events

ER Coughlin, CJ Nixon - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a Newtonian model of a deep tidal disruption event (TDE), for which the
pericenter distance of the star, rp, is well within the tidal radius of the black hole, rt, ie, when …

Changing-Look Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies, their Detection with SVOM, and the Case of NGC 1566

DW Xu, S Komossa, D Grupe, J Wang, LP Xin, XH Han… - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
We discuss applications of the study of the new and barely explored class of changing-look
(CL) narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies and comment on their detection with the space …

A Census of Archival X-Ray Spectra for Modeling Tidal Disruption Events

A Goldtooth, AI Zabludoff, S Wen… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are highly energetic phenomena that occur when a star is
tidally disrupted by the central massive black hole in a galaxy. Fitting the observed X-ray …

A new X-ray tidal disruption event candidate with fast variability

J Hampel, S Komossa, J Greiner… - … in Astronomy and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
During a close encounter between a star and a supermassive black hole, the star can get
disrupted by the black hole's tidal forces, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The …

Probing the Subparsec Dust of a Supermassive Black Hole with the Tidal Disruption Event AT 2020mot

M Newsome, I Arcavi, DA Howell, J Burke… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
AT 2020mot is a typical UV/optical tidal disruption event (TDE) with no radio or X-ray
signatures in a quiescent host. We find an i-band excess and rebrightening along the …

Populations of highly variable X-ray sources in the XMM–Newton slew survey

D Li, RLC Starling, RD Saxton, HW Pan… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the identifications of a flux-limited sample of highly variable X-ray sources on
long time-scales from the second catalogue of the XMM–Newton SLew survey (XMMSL2) …