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The maximum mass of a black hole which can tidally disrupt a star: measuring black hole spins with tidal disruption events
Andrew Mummery
The tidal acceleration experienced by an object at the event horizon of a black hole decreases as one over the square of the black hole's mass. As such there is a maximum mass at w…
Testing theories of accretion and gravity with super-extremal Kerr discs
Andrew Mummery, Steven Balbus, Adam Ingram
Fitting the thermal continuum emission of accreting black holes observed across X-ray bands represents one of the principle means of constraining the properties (mass and spin) of…
Late time HST UV and optical observations of AT~2018cow: extracting a cow from its background
Anne Inkenhaag, Peter G. Jonker, Andrew J. Levan +4
The bright, blue, rapidly evolving AT2018cow is a well-studied peculiar extragalactic transient. Despite an abundance of multi-wavelength data, there still is no consensus on the n…
Fundamental scaling relationships revealed in the optical light curves of tidal disruption events
Andrew Mummery, Sjoert van Velzen, Edward Nathan +4
We present fundamental scaling relationships between properties of the optical/UV light curves of tidal disruption events (TDEs) and the mass of the black hole that disrupted the s…
AT2023fhn (the Finch): a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient at a large offset from its host galaxy
A. A. Chrimes, P. G. Jonker, A. J. Levan +8
Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOTs) - the prototypical example being AT2018cow - are a rare class of events whose origins are poorly understood. They are characterised b…
Extending the theory of propagating fluctuations: the first fully relativistic treatment and analytical Fourier-Green's functions
Andrew Mummery
The aperiodic variability ubiquitously observed from accreting black hole X-ray binary systems is generally analysed within the framework of the so-called ``theory of propagating f…