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astro-ph.HE2014★ 97 cited
Illuminating Massive Black Holes With White Dwarfs: Orbital Dynamics and High Energy Transients from Tidal Interactions
Morgan MacLeod, Jacqueline Goldstein, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +2
White dwarfs (WDs) can be tidally disrupted only by massive black holes (MBHs) with masses less than . These tidal interactions feed material to the MBH well abov…
astro-ph.HE2014★ 45 cited
Possible Origin of the G2 Cloud from the Tidal Disruption of a Known Giant Star by Sgr A*
James Guillochon, Abraham Loeb, Morgan MacLeod +1
The discovery of the gas cloud G2 on a near-radial orbit about Sgr A* has prompted much speculation on its origin. In this Letter, we propose that G2 formed out of the debris strea…