45 citations · 51 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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astro-ph.HE2015★ 6 cited
"Circularization" vs. Accretion -- What Powers Tidal Disruption Events?
Tsvi Piran, Gilad Svirski, Julian Krolik +2
A tidal disruption event (TDE) takes place when a star passes near enough to a massive black hole to be disrupted. About half the star's matter is given elliptical trajectories wit…
astro-ph.HE2014★ 45 cited
SN 2008D: A Wolf-Rayet explosion through a thick wind
Gilad Svirski, Ehud Nakar
Supernova (SN) 2008D/XRT 080109 is considered to be the only direct detection of a shock breakout from a regular SN to date. While a breakout interpretation was favored by several…