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The impact of recombination during tidal disruption events
Simona Pacuraru, Clément Bonnerot, Martin E. Pessah
During a tidal disruption event, the resulting debris stream cools down adiabatically due to the tidal stretching. As the temperature drops, the gas is expected to undergo chemical…
The impact of magnetic fields during tidal disruption events
Simona Pacuraru, Clément Bonnerot, Martin E. Pessah
During a tidal disruption event (TDE) the stream debris inherits the magnetic field of the star. As the stream stretches, the magnetic field evolves and can eventually become dynam…
Swift/UVOT discovery of Swift J221951-484240: a UV luminous ambiguous nuclear transient
S. R. Oates, N. P. M. Kuin, M. Nicholl +57
We report the discovery of Swift J221951-484240 (hereafter: J221951), a luminous slow-evolving blue transient that was detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Ultra-violet/O…
AT2019azh: an unusually long-lived, radio-bright thermal tidal disruption event
A. J. Goodwin, S. van Velzen, J. C. A. Miller-Jones +7
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is destroyed by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, temporarily increasing the accretion rate onto the black hole…
General Relativistic Stream Crossing in Tidal Disruption Events
Gauri Batra, Wenbin Lu, Clément Bonnerot +1
When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH), the gas debris is stretched into an elongated stream. The longitudinal motion of the stream follows geodesics in…
From Pericenter and Back: Full Debris Stream Evolution in Tidal Disruption Events
Clément Bonnerot, Martin E. Pessah, Wenbin Lu
When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets disrupted by strong tidal forces. The stellar debris then evolves into an elongated stream of gas that partly fal…