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HLX-1 as a Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event around an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Fangyuan Yu, Andrew Mummery, Muryel Guolo
ESO 24349 HLX--1 is one of the first known compelling intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates, but the origin of its recurrent X-ray outbursts remains unsettled. In this…
Even a precessing clock is right twice per orbit -- The super-periods of eRO-QPE2 and challenges for quasi-periodic eruption orbital models
R. Arcodia, G. Miniutti, J. Chakraborty +25
We present OC (``observed minus calculated'') timing analysis of the quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) source eRO-QPE2 with a multi-mission X-ray campaign, which includes 32 observe…
AT2024lhc and AT2024kmq in the landscape of featureless tidal disruption events
Yuhan Yao, Ryan Chornock, Andrew Mummery +39
We study AT2024kmq and AT2024lhc, two tidal disruption events (TDEs) with blue featureless spectra associated with high-mass black holes (). Both even…
Demographics of Wandering Black Holes Powering Off-Nuclear Tidal Disruption Events
Muryel Guolo
The recent discovery of three off-nuclear tidal disruption events (EP240222a, AT2024tvd, and AT2025abcr) - following the first such source, 3XMM J215005 - reveals a small but ro…
The Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Powering the off-nuclear TDE AT2024tvd
M. Guolo, A. Mummery, S. van Velzen +11
We present an analysis of the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the off-nuclear tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2024tvd during its late-time plateau phase, combining X-ray spect…
Tidal disruption event rates across cosmic time: forecasts for LSST, Roman, and JWST and their constraints on the supermassive black hole mass function
Mitchell Karmen, Suvi Gezari, Colin Norman +1
Measuring the mass distribution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) over cosmic time remains particularly challenging for the low mass (M_BH<10^8 M_sun) population at z>1. This pop…
Tidal disruption event Calorimetry: Observational constraints on the physics of TDE optical flares
Andrew Mummery, Brian Metzger, Sjoert van Velzen +1
Tidal disruption events are routinely discovered as bright optical/UV flares, the properties of which are now well categorized on the population level. The underlying physical proc…
Compact Accretion Disks in the Aftermath of Tidal Disruption Events: Parameter Inference from Joint X-ray Spectra and UV/Optical Photometry Fitting
M. Guolo, A. Mummery, S. van Velzen +8
We present a multi-wavelength analysis of 14 tidal disruption events (TDEs)-including an off-nuclear event associated with an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy-selected for having availab…
JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi I: Interpretation and Model Comparison of the Type II Supernova 2024ggi at 55 days Past Explosion
E. Baron, C. Ashall, J. M. DerKacy +40
We present panchromatic 0.4-21 microns observations of the nearby (about 7.2 Mpc) Type II supernova 2024ggi, obtained during the plateau phase at about 55 d past explosion. Our dat…
A Time-Dependent Solution for GSN 069 Disk Evolution and the Nature of Long-Lived Tidal Disruption Events
M. Guolo, A. Mummery, A. Ingram +3
We present the implementation of a fully time-dependent relativistic disk model-based on the light curve fitting package FitTeD-into the X-ray spectral fitting environment, pyXspec…
Galaxy scale consequences of tidal disruption events: extended emission line regions, extreme coronal lines and infrared-to-optical light echoes
Andrew Mummery, Muryel Guolo, James Matthews +3
Stars in galactic centers are occasionally scattered so close to the central supermassive black hole that they are completely disrupted by tidal forces, initiating a transient accr…
JWST's First View of Tidal Disruption Events: Compact, Accretion-Driven Emission Lines & Strong Silicate Emission in an Infrared-selected Sample
Megan Masterson, Kishalay De, Christos Panagiotou +7
Mid-infrared (MIR) emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) is a powerful probe of the circumnuclear environment around dormant supermassive black holes. This emission arises f…
Discovery of a likely Type II SN at =3.6 with JWST
D. A. Coulter, J. D. R. Pierel, C. DeCoursey +30
Transient astronomy in the early, high-redshift (z > 3) Universe is an unexplored regime that offers the possibility of probing the first stars and the Epoch of Reionization. Durin…
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…
The properties of GSN 069 accretion disk from a joint X-ray and UV spectral analysis: stress-testing quasi-periodic eruption models
M. Guolo, A. Mummery, T. Wevers +4
We present an analysis of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and XMM-Newton data of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate and quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) source GSN 069. Using ult…
Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event
M. Nicholl, D. R. Pasham, A. Mummery +61
Quasi-periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are luminous bursts of soft X-rays from the nuclei of galaxies, repeating on timescales of hours to weeks. The mechanism behind these rare systems i…
The size of accretion disks from self-consistent X-ray spectra and UV/optical/NIR photometry fitting: applications to ASASSN-14li and HLX-1
Muryel Guolo, Andrew Mummery
We implement a standard thin disk model with the outer disk radius () as a free parameter, integrating it into standard X-ray fitting package to enable self-consistent…
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…
Discovery of An Apparent Red, High-Velocity Type Ia Supernova at z = 2.9 with JWST
J. D. R. Pierel, M. Engesser, D. A. Coulter +27
We present the JWST discovery of SN 2023adsy, a transient object located in a host galaxy JADES-GS with a host spectroscopic redshift of . Th…
Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions and tidal disruption events prefer similar host galaxies
T. Wevers, K. D. French, A. I. Zabludoff +10
In the past five years, six quasi-periodic X-ray eruption (QPE) sources have been discovered in the nuclei of nearby galaxies. Their origin remains an open question. We present MUS…
Discovery of a Relativistic Stripped Envelope Type Ic-BL Supernova at z = 2.83 with JWST
M. R. Siebert, C. Decoursey, D. A. Coulter +26
We present JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec observations of a Type Ic supernova (SN Ic) and its host galaxy (JADES-GS+53.13533-27.81457) at . This SN (named SN 2023adta) was ident…
Sub-relativistic Outflow and Hours-Timescale Large-amplitude X-ray Dips during Super-Eddington Accretion onto a Low-mass Massive Black Hole in the Tidal Disruption Event AT2022lri
Yuhan Yao, Muryel Guolo, Francesco Tombesi +32
We present the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2022lri, hosted in a nearby ( Mpc) quiescent galaxy with a low-mass massive black hole ($10^4\,M_\odot < M_{\rm BH} < 10…
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…
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.…