Exploring the origin of stars on bound and unbound orbits causing tidal disruption events
arXiv:2011.09400 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad0122
Abstract
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a clue to the properties of a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) and an accretion disk around it, and to the stellar density and velocity distributions in the nuclear star cluster surrounding the SMBH. Deviations of TDE light curves from the standard occurring at a parabolic encounter with the SMBH depends on whether the stellar orbit is hyperbolic or eccentric (Hayasaki et al. 2018) and the penetration factor (, tidal disruption radius to orbital pericenter ratio). We study the orbital parameters of bound and unbound stars being tidally disrupted by comparison of direct -body simulation data with an analytical model. Starting from the classical steady-state Fokker-Planck model of Cohn & Kulsrud (1978), we develop an analytical model of the number density distribution of those stars as a function of orbital eccentricity () and . To do so fittings of the density and velocity distribution of the nuclear star cluster and of the energy distribution of tidally disrupted stars are required and obtained from -body data. We confirm that most of the stars causing TDEs in a spherical nuclear star cluster originate from the full loss-cone region of phase space, derive analytical boundaries in eccentricity- space, and find them confirmed by -body data. Since our limiting eccentricities are much smaller than critical eccentricities for full accretion or full escape of stellar debris, we conclude that those stars are only very marginally eccentric or hyperbolic, close to parabolic.
arXiv comment28 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
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