Mid-infrared flare of TDE candidate PS16dtm: dust echo and implications for the spectral evolution

Ning Jiang, Tinggui Wang, Lin Yan +6

PS16dtm was classified as a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) in a dwarf Seyfert 1 galaxy with low-mass black hole ($\sim 10^{6}M\odot$) and has presented various intriguing phot…