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astro-ph.HE2026

First Pre-peak Ultraviolet Spectrum of a Tidal Disruption Event: A Fast Outflow Revealed Prior to Maximum Light in TDE2025aarm

Erica Hammerstein, Ryan Chornock, Jean Somalwar +32

The tidal disruption and eventual accretion of a star by a massive black hole can lead to the launching of outflows and winds that encode important information about the tidal disr…

astro-ph.HE2026

The Light Curve of Wind-Reprocessed Tidal Disruption Events

Brenna Mockler, David Khatami, Daniel Kasen +2

The source of the optical/UV emission in tidal disruption events (TDEs) remains an enduring question in the field. Connecting the observed emission to the source is critical for bo…

astro-ph.HE2026

Can tidal disruption event models reliably measure black hole masses?

C. R. Angus, A. J. Smith, D. Magill +15

Tidal disruption event (TDE) light curves are increasingly used to infer the masses of quiescent supermassive black holes (), offering a powerful probe of low-mass bla…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

X-ray Variability and Photosphere Evolution during Accretion Disk Formation in Tidal Disruption Events

Xiaoshan Huang, Maria Renee Meza, Sol Bin Yun +3

The early time emission in tidal disruption events (TDEs) originates from both accretion and shocks, producing photons that eventually emerge from an inhomogeneous photosphere. We…

astro-ph.HE2025

Tidal Disruption Events

Brenna Mockler, Erica Hammerstein, Eric R. Coughlin +1

Stars that orbit too close to a black hole can be ripped apart by strong tides, producing a type of luminous transient event called a ``tidal disruption event" (TDE). Tidal disrupt…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Delayed radio emission in tidal disruption events from collisions of outflows driven by disk instabilities

Samantha C. Wu, Daichi Tsuna, Brenna Mockler +1

Delayed radio emission has been associated with a growing proportion of tidal disruption events (TDEs). For many events, the radio synchrotron emission is inferred to originate fro…