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Ultra-deep tidal disruption events: prompt self-intersections and observables
Siva Darbha, Eric R. Coughlin, Daniel Kasen +1
A star approaching a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be torn apart in a tidal disruption event (TDE). We examine ultra-deep TDEs, a new regime in which the disrupted debris appr…
Circumbinary discs from tidal disruption events
Eric R. Coughlin, Philip J. Armitage
Tidal disruption events, which occur when a star is shredded by the tidal field of a supermassive black hole, provide a means of fueling black hole accretion. Here we show, using a…
Tidal disruption by extreme mass ratio binaries and application to ASASSN-15lh
Eric R. Coughlin, Philip J. Armitage
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) observed in massive galaxies with inferred central black hole masses are presumptive candidates for TDEs by lower mass seconda…
The radiation hydrodynamics of relativistic shear flows
Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman
We present a method for analyzing the interaction between radiation and matter in regions of intense, relativistic shear that can arise in many astrophysical situations. We show th…
On the structure of tidally-disrupted stellar debris streams
Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon, Mitchell C. Begelman +1
A tidal disruption event (TDE) -- when a star is destroyed by the immense gravitational field of a supermassive black hole -- transforms a star into a stream of tidally-shredded de…