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astro-ph.HE2021★ 3 cited
General Relativistic Stream Crossing in Tidal Disruption Events
Gauri Batra, Wenbin Lu, Clément Bonnerot +1
When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH), the gas debris is stretched into an elongated stream. The longitudinal motion of the stream follows geodesics in…
astro-ph.HE2021★ 11 cited
From Pericenter and Back: Full Debris Stream Evolution in Tidal Disruption Events
Clément Bonnerot, Martin E. Pessah, Wenbin Lu
When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets disrupted by strong tidal forces. The stellar debris then evolves into an elongated stream of gas that partly fal…