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A radio jet from the optical and x-ray bright stellar tidal disruption flare ASASSN-14li
Sjoert van Velzen, Gemma E. Anderson, Nicholas C. Stone +11
The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole leads to a short-lived thermal flare. Despite extensive searches, radio follow-up observations of known thermal stellar…
A Bright Year for Tidal Disruptions?
Brian D. Metzger, Nicholas C. Stone
When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH), roughly half of its mass falls back to the BH at super-Eddington rates. Being tenuously gravitationally bound an…
Circumnuclear Media of Quiescent Supermassive Black Holes
Aleksey Generozov, Nicholas C. Stone, Brian D. Metzger
We calculate steady-state, one-dimensional hydrodynamic profiles of hot gas in slowly accreting ("quiescent") galactic nuclei for a range of central black hole masses …
A Dynamical Potential-Density Pair for Star Clusters With Nearly Isothermal Interiors
Nicholas C. Stone, Jeremiah P. Ostriker
We present a potential-density pair designed to model nearly isothermal star clusters (and similar self-gravitating systems) with a central core and an outer turnover radius, beyon…
Circularization of Tidally Disrupted Stars around Spinning Supermassive Black Holes
Kimitake Hayasaki, Nicholas C. Stone, Abraham Loeb
We study the circularization of tidally disrupted stars on bound orbits around spinning supermassive black holes by performing three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamic simu…