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A luminous X-ray transient in SDSS J143359.16+400636.0: a likely tidal disruption event
Murray Brightman, Charlotte Ward, Daniel Stern +9
We present the discovery of a luminous X-ray transient, serendipitously detected by Swift's X-ray Telescope (XRT) on 2020 February 5, located in the nucleus of the galaxy SDSS J143…
Optical-Ultraviolet Tidal Disruption Events
Sjoert van Velzen, Thomas W. -S. Holoien, Francesca Onori +2
The existence of optical-ultraviolet Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) could be considered surprising because their electromagnetic output was originally predicted to be dominated by…
Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational Wave Event S190521g
M. J. Graham, K. E. S. Ford, B. McKernan +24
We report the first plausible optical electromagnetic (EM) counterpart to a (candidate) binary black hole (BBH) merger. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), the EM flar…
Radio Properties of Tidal Disruption Events
Kate D. Alexander, Sjoert van Velzen, Assaf Horesh +1
Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) probe material ejected by the disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), uniquely tracing the formation and evolu…
The Structure of Tidal Disruption Event Host Galaxies on Scales of Tens to Thousands of Parsecs
K. Decker French, Iair Arcavi, Ann I. Zabludoff +5
We explore the galaxy structure of four tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies on 30 pc to kpc scales using HST WFC3 multi-band imaging. The star formation histories of these h…