collaborators

5 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

The mass distribution of clumpy accretion onto the nearby young star TW Hya

Tao Ji, Javier Serna, Gregory J. Herczeg +12

The proliferation of high time-resolution and decades-long monitoring of classical T Tauri stars provides a vast opportunity to test the variability of the star-disk connections. H…

astro-ph.HE2025

A multi-dimensional view of a unified model for TDEs

Edward J. Parkinson, Christian Knigge, Lixin Dai +3

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can generate non-spherical, relativistic and optically thick outflows. Simulations show that the radiation we observe is reprocessed by these outflow…

astro-ph.HE2025

Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption Events around Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

Janet N. Y. Chang, Lixin Dai, Hugo Pfister +2

Rates of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been extensively calculated using the loss cone theory, while theoretical work on TDE r…

astro-ph.HE2025

QPEs as Lense-Thirring precession of super-Eddington flows

M. Middleton, A. Gurpide, T. M. Kwan +9

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a recently identified class of X-ray transient associated with tidal disruption events by supermassive black holes, and for which there are mult…

astro-ph.HE2024

Modeling Multiple X-Ray Reflection in Super-Eddington Winds

Zijian Zhang, Lars Lund Thomsen, Lixin Dai +7

It has been recently discovered that a few super-Eddington sources undergoing black hole super-Eddington accretion exhibit X-ray reflection signatures. In such new systems, one exp…