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Tidal Disruption Events through the Lens of the Cooling Envelope Model
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- Sarin, Nikhil (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Nordiska institutet för teoretisk fysik (Nordita),Fysikum,Oskar Klein-centrum för kosmopartikelfysik (OKC)
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- Metzger, Brian D. (författare)
- Department of Physics and Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Ave., New York, NY 10010, USA
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- American Astronomical Society, 2024
- 2024
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Astrophysical Journal Letters. - : American Astronomical Society. - 2041-8205 .- 2041-8213. ; 961:1
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- The cooling envelope model for tidal disruption events (TDEs) postulates that while the stellar debris streams rapidly dissipate their bulk kinetic energy (“circularize”), this does not necessarily imply rapid feeding of the supermassive black hole (SMBH). The bound material instead forms a large pressure-supported envelope that powers optical/UV emission as it undergoes gradual Kelvin-Helmholtz contraction. We present results interpreting a sample of 15 optical TDEs within the cooling envelope model in order to constrain the SMBH mass M BH, stellar mass M ⋆, and orbital penetration factor β. The distributions of inferred properties from our sample broadly follow the theoretical expectations of loss-cone analysis assuming a standard stellar initial mass function. However, we find a deficit of events with M BH ≲ 5 × 105 and M ⋆ ≲ 0.5 M ⊙, which could result in part from the reduced detectability of TDEs with these properties. Our model fits also illustrate the predicted long delay between the optical light-curve peak and when the SMBH accretion rate reaches its maximum. The latter occurs only once the envelope contracts to the circularization radius on a timescale of months to years, consistent with delayed-rising X-ray and nonthermal radio flares seen in a growing number of TDEs.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
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