Measuring black hole masses from tidal disruption events and testing the $M_{\mathrm{BH}}-{\sigma }_{\ast }$ relation

Z. Q. Zhou, F. K. Liu, S. Komossa +4

Liu and collaborators recently proposed an elliptical accretion disk model for tidal disruption events (TDEs). They showed that the accretion disks of optical/UV TDEs are large and…