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AT2019azh:一个异常长寿的射电明亮的热潮汐破坏事件

AT2019azh: an unusually long-lived, radio-bright thermal tidal disruption event

A. J. Goodwin, S. van Velzen, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, A. Mummery, M. F. Bietenholz, A. Wederfoort, E. Hammerstein, C. Bonnerot, J. Hoffmann, L. Yan

摘要:

当恒星被星系中心的超大质量黑洞摧毁时,潮汐破裂事件(TDE)就会发生,暂时增加了黑洞的吸积率,并在电磁波谱中产生明亮的耀斑。对TDEs的射电观测追踪可能产生的外流和喷流。从TDEs流出的无线电探测是不常见的,迄今为止发现的TDEs中只有大约三分之一公布了无线电探测结果。在这里,我们提出了两年多的全面,多射频监测观测潮汐中断事件AT 2019 azh采取的超大阵列(VLA)和MeerKAT射电望远镜从大约10天前的光学峰值后810天的光学峰值。AT2019azh显示了热TDE的不寻常的无线电发射,因为它在两年中非常缓慢地变亮,并且显示了从破坏后450天开始的光学薄同步辐射的同步辐射能量指数的波动。根据射电性质,我们推断,在这个事件中的流出可能是非相对论性的,可以解释为一个球形流出所产生的自流交叉,或轻度准直流出吸积到超大质量黑洞。这一数据集提供了一个显着的贡献,从TDE流出的观测数据库,包括最早的无线电检测的非相对论TDE的日期,相对于光学的发现。

英文摘要:

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is destroyed by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, temporarily increasing the accretion rate onto the black hole and producing a bright flare across the electromagnetic spectrum. Radio observations of TDEs trace outflows and jets that may be produced. Radio detections of the outflows from TDEs are uncommon, with only about one third of TDEs discovered to date having published radio detections. Here we present over two years of comprehensive, multi-radio frequency monitoring observations of the tidal disruption event AT2019azh taken with the Very Large Array (VLA) and MeerKAT radio telescopes from approximately 10 days pre-optical peak to 810 days post-optical peak. AT2019azh shows unusual radio emission for a thermal TDE, as it brightened very slowly over two years, and showed fluctuations in the synchrotron energy index of the optically thin synchrotron emission from 450 days post-disruption. Based on the radio properties, we deduce that the outflow in this event is likely non-relativistic and could be explained by a spherical outflow arising from self-stream intersections, or a mildly collimated outflow from accretion onto the supermassive black hole. This data-set provides a significant contribution to the observational database of outflows from TDEs, including the earliest radio detection of a non-relativistic TDE to date, relative to the optical discovery.

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