A Unified Ionization Framework for the Spectroscopic Diversity of Tidal Disruption Events

Lars L. Thomsen, Lixin Dai, Daniel Kasen +4

Optical tidal disruption events (TDEs) exhibit extremely broad emission lines ($\approx 10^3$-$10^4\mathrm{km}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$) and are observationally classified into four spectroscopic typ…