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Post-periapsis pancakes: sustenance for self-gravity in tidal disruption events
Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon, Mitchell C. Begelman +2
A tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star is destroyed by the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole, produces a stream of debris, the evolution of which ultimat…
Viscous boundary layers of radiation-dominated, relativistic jets. II. The free-streaming jet model
Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman
We analyze the interaction of a radiation-dominated jet and its surroundings using the equations of radiation hydrodynamics in the viscous limit. In a previous paper we considered…
Viscous boundary layers of radiation-dominated, relativistic jets. I. The two-stream model
Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman
Using the relativistic equations of radiation hydrodynamics in the viscous limit, we analyze the boundary layers that develop between radiation-dominated jets and their environment…
Variability in tidal disruption events: gravitationally unstable streams
Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon
We present simulations of the tidal disruption of a solar mass star by a black hole. These, for the first time, cover the full time evolution of the tidal disruptio…