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Observations of Repeating Tidal Disruption Events
Iair Arcavi, Thomas Wevers
The disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) as tidal disruption events (TDEs) can produce transient flares across the electromagnetic spectrum. Such flares can be u…
Observations of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions
Thomas Wevers, Joheen Chakraborty, Erwan Quintin +2
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel class of repeating nuclear transients, discovered exclusively in the X-ray band to date. Since their initial discovery in 2019, the QPE…
The Role of Stellar Spin in Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events
Ananya Bandopadhyay, Benjamin Amend, Eric R. Coughlin +3
The repeated tidal stripping of a star by a supermassive black hole, known as a repeating partial tidal disruption event (rpTDE), can give rise to a transient that rebrightens mont…
Spatially resolved optical and mid-infrared spectroscopy of SDSS1335+0728: implications for the origin of the Ansky event
P. Sánchez-Sáez, M. Masterson, L. Hernández-García +25
The galaxy SDSS1335+0728 brightened abruptly in December 2019 (the Ansky event) and has since been confirmed as the host of extreme X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) of debated…
Optical observations of candidate host galaxies of eight fast X-ray transients
Agnes P. C. van Hoof, Peter G. Jonker, Lieke Tommel +15
Fast X-ray transients (FXTs) are extragalactic flashes of X-rays with a typical duration of minutes to hours for which a variety of origins has been proposed and observed. To decip…
The Lazuli Space Observatory: Opportunities for time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy
T. Wevers, T. J. Maccarone, A. Palmese +14
Advancing time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy requires a multi-wavelength network of observatories capable of rapidly discovering, classifying, and characterizing transient p…
The Hubble Advanced Spectral Product (HASP) Program
John Debes, Ravi Sankrit, Travis Fischer +39
The Hubble Advanced Spectral Products (HASP) program is designed to robustly coadd Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) spectra within…
Overview of the New Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive
Ravi Sankrit, John Debes, Matthew Burger +34
The new Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive (HSLA) provides coadded spectra of individual targets that have been observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and the Space T…
The Lazuli Space Observatory: Architecture & Capabilities
Arpita Roy, Stuart Feldman, Pete Klupar +51
The Lazuli Space Observatory is a 3-meter aperture astronomical facility designed for rapid-response observations and precision astrophysics across visible to near-infrared wavelen…
Detection of disk-jet co-precession in a tidal disruption event
Yanan Wang, Zikun Lin, Linhui Wu +46
Theories and simulations predict that intense spacetime curvature near black holes bends the trajectories of light and matter, driving disk and jet precession under relativistic to…
Time-resolved Hubble Space Telescope UV observations of an X-ray quasi-periodic eruption source
Thomas Wevers, Muryel Guolo, Sean Lockwood +3
X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel mode of variability in nearby galactic nuclei whose origin remains unknown. Their multi-wavelength properties are poorly constrain…
Repeated Partial Tidal Disruptions and Quasi-Periodic Eruptions in SwJ023017.0+283603
Dheeraj Pasham, Eric Coughlin, Chris Nixon +5
SwJ023017.0+283603 (SwJ0230) exhibited soft X-ray (0.3-1.0 keV) eruptions recurring roughly every 22 days. We present results from an extended monitoring campaign of SwJ0230 using…
Repeating transients in galactic nuclei: confronting observations with theory
Petra Suková, Francesco Tombesi, Dheeraj R. Pasham +5
In the last few years, a mysterious new class of astrophysical objects has been uncovered. These are spatially coincident with the nuclei of external galaxies and show X-ray variat…
Alive and Strongly Kicking: Stable X-ray Quasi-Periodic Eruptions from eRO-QPE2 over 3.5 Years
Dheeraj Pasham, Shubham Kejriwal, Eric Coughlin +5
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring bursts of soft X-rays from the nuclei of galaxies. Their physical origin is currently a subject of debate, with models typically invok…
A Potential Second Shutoff from AT2018fyk: An updated Orbital Ephemeris of the Surviving Star under the Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event Paradigm
Dheeraj Pasham, Eric Coughlin, Muryel Guolo +4
The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018dyk/ASASSN-18UL showed a rapid dimming event 500 days after discovery, followed by a re-brightening roughly 700 days later. It has been hypot…
A Case for a Binary Black Hole System Revealed via Quasi-Periodic Outflows
Dheeraj R. Pasham, Francesco Tombesi, Petra Sukova +33
Binaries containing a compact object orbiting a supermassive black hole are thought to be precursors of gravitational wave events, but their identification has been extremely chall…
Alive but Barely Kicking: News from 3+ years of Swift and XMM-Newton X-ray Monitoring of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions from eRO-QPE1
Dheeraj R. Pasham, Eric R. Coughlin, Michal Zajacek +11
Quasi-periodic Eruptions (QPEs) represent a novel class of extragalactic X-ray transients that are known to repeat at roughly regular intervals of a few hours to days. Their underl…
Lense-Thirring Precession after a Supermassive Black Hole Disrupts a Star
Dheeraj R. Pasham, Michal Zajacek, C. J. Nixon +8
An accretion disk formed around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) after it disrupts a star is expected to be initially misaligned with respect to the black hole's equatorial plane.…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Sensitive broadband X-ray observations of transient phenomena in the 2030s
Murray Brightman, Raffaella Margutti, Ava Polzin +13
HEX-P will launch at a time when the sky is being routinely scanned for transient gravitational wave, electromagnetic and neutrino phenomena that will require the capabilities of a…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Probing the physics of the X-ray corona in active galactic nuclei
E. Kammoun, A. M. Lohfink, M. Masterson +28
The hard X-ray emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and black hole X-ray binaries is thought to be produced by a hot cloud of electrons referred to as the corona. This emission…
Multi-messenger astronomy with black holes: tidal disruption events
Thomas Wevers, Taeho Ryu
This chapter provides an overview of tidal disruption events, aiming to provide an overview of both the theoretical and the observational state of the field, with the overarching g…
X-ray eruptions every 22 days from the nucleus of a nearby galaxy
Muryel Guolo, Dheeraj R. Pasham, Michal Zajaček +15
Galactic nuclei showing recurrent phases of activity and quiescence have recently been discovered, with recurrence times as short as a few hours to a day -- known as quasi-periodic…
Performance characterization and near-realtime monitoring of MUSE adaptive optics modes at Paranal
T. Wevers, F. J. Selman, A. Reyes +13
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is an integral field spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope Unit Telescope 4, capable of laser guide star assisted and tomographic ad…
The Host Galaxies of Tidal Disruption Events
K. Decker French, Thomas Wevers, Jamie Law-Smith +2
Recent studies of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have revealed unexpected correlations between the TDE rate and the large-scale properties of the host galaxies. In this review, we…