AT2022zod: An Unusual Tidal Disruption Event in an Elliptical Galaxy at Redshift 0.11
Kristen C. Dage, Phelipe Darc, Thallis Pessi, Rupesh Durgesh, Shravya Shenoy, Lilianne Nakazono, Celine Boehm, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Rafael S. de Souza, Zsofia V… 展开作者
Kristen C. Dage, Phelipe Darc, Thallis Pessi, Rupesh Durgesh, Shravya Shenoy, Lilianne Nakazono, Celine Boehm, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Rafael S. de Souza, Zsofia V. Kovacs-Stermeczky, Arash Bahramian, Bahar Bidaran, Emille E. O. Ishida, Alberto Krone-Martins, Aarya A. Patil, Reinaldo R. Rosa, Andressa Wille, Richard M. Plotkin, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh
潮汐破坏事件（TDEs）长期以来被假定为有价值的黑洞指示器，提供了从高红移处了解其人口统计和行为的见解。TDEs也促成了几个大质量黑洞（MBHs）的发现，这些黑洞的推测质量在$10^4$--$10^6\,M_\odot$之间，通常与矮星系或超致密矮星系（UCDs）的核区相关联。本文介绍了AT2022zod，这是一个在红移z=0.11的椭圆星系中发生的极端且短暂的光学耀斑，位于星系中心3kpc范围内。其亮度和约30天的持续时间使其不太可能起源于宿主星系中心的超大质量黑洞（SMBH），该黑洞估计质量约为$10^8\,M_\odot$。假设发射机制与已知观测到的TDEs一致，我们发现这种快速演化的暂现体可能是由中间质量范围的MBH产生，或者可能是由围绕中心SMBH的非抛物轨道上的恒星的潮汐破坏产生。我们建议AT2022zod最可能的起源是被嵌入UCD中的MBH潮汐破坏的恒星。随着 Vera C. Rubin 观测站的 Legacy Survey of Space and Time 项目上线，我们提出AT2022zod 作为改进中间质量黑洞搜索策略和表征技术的重要事件。
英文摘要：
Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have long been hypothesized as valuable indicators of black holes, offering insight into their demographics and behaviour out to high redshift. TDEs have also enabled the discovery of a few Massive Black Holes (MBHs) with inferred masses of $10^4$--$10^6\,M_\odot$, often associated with the nuclei of dwarf galaxies or ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs). Here we present AT2022zod, an extreme and short-lived optical flare in an elliptical galaxy at z=0.11, residing within 3kpc of the galaxy's centre. Its luminosity and ~30-day duration make it unlikely to have originated from the host galaxy's central supermassive black hole (SMBH), which estimate to have a mass around $10^8\,M_\odot$. Assuming that the emission mechanism is consistent with known observed TDEs, we find that such a rapidly evolving transient could either be produced by a MBH in the intermediate-mass range or, alternatively, result from the tidal disruption of a star on a non-parabolic orbit around the central SMBH. We suggest that the most plausible origin for AT2022zod is the tidal disruption of a star by a MBH embedded in a UCD. As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time comes online, we propose that AT2022zod serves as an important event for refining search strategies and characterization techniques for intermediate-mass black holes.
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Radio Observations of the Unusual Tidal Disruption Event AT 2022wtn: a Fast and Highly Energetic Outflow
University of Utah（犹他大学）；University of Arizona（亚利桑那大学）；International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research – Curtin University（国际射电天文研究中心 - 科廷大学）；Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian（天体物理中心 | 哈佛与史密森尼学会）；University of Oregon（俄勒冈大学）
We present the discovery of the fading radio transient FIRST J153350.8+272729. The source had a maximum observed 5-GHz radio luminosity of $8\times10^{39}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in 1986, but by 2019 had faded by a factor of nearly 400. It is located 0.15 arcsec from the center of a galaxy (SDSS J153350.89+272729) at 147 Mpc, which shows weak Type II Seyfert activity. We show that a tidal disruption event (TDE) is the preferred scenario for FIRST J153350.8+272729, although it could plausibly be interpreted as the afterglow of a long-duration gamma-ray burst. This is only the second TDE candidate to be f…
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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes close enough to a galaxy's supermassive black hole to be disrupted by tidal forces. We discuss new observations of IGRJ12580+0134, a TDE observed in NGC 4845 (d=17 Mpc) in November 2010, with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA). We also discuss a reanalysis of 2010-2011 Swift and XMM-Newton observations, as well as new, late-time Swift observations. Our JVLA observations show a decay of the nuclear radio flux until 2015, when a plateau was seen, and then a significant (~factor 3) radio flare during 2016. The 2016 radio flare was al…
The ROSAT-selected tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate RX J133157.6-324319.7 (J1331), was detected in 1993 as a bright (0.2-2 keV flux of $(1.0 \pm 0.1) \times 10^{-12}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$), ultra-soft ($kT=0.11 \pm 0.03$ keV) X-ray flare from a quiescent galaxy ($z=0.05189$). During its fifth All-Sky survey (eRASS5) in 2022, SRG/eROSITA detected the repeated flaring of J1331, where it had rebrightened to an observed 0.2-2 keV flux of $(6.0 \pm 0.7) \times 10^{-13}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$, with spectral properties ($kT=0.115 \pm 0.007$ keV) consistent with the ROSAT-observed flare $\sim…
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Wandering intermediate-mass black holes and off-nuclear tidal disruption events from early star clusters
Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；Philipps Universität Marburg（马尔堡菲利普斯大学）；Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey（罗格斯大学）；Flatiron Institute（平顿研究所）；The University of Tokyo（东京大学）；Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI)（宇宙物理与数学研究 Kavli 研究所）
After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), if the stellar debris stream rapidly circularizes and forms a compact disk, the TDE emission is expected to peak in the soft X-ray or far Ultra-Violet (UV). The fact that many TDE candidates are observed to peak in the near UV and optical has challenged conventional TDE emission models. By idealizing a disk as a nested sequence of elliptical orbits which communicate adiabatically via pressure forces, and are heated by energy dissipated during the circularization of the nearly parabolic debris streams, we …
NTT, Spitzer and Chandra spectroscopy of SDSSJ095209.56+214313.3: the most luminous coronal-line supernova ever observed, or a stellar tidal disruption event ?
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Tidal disruption of a low-mass star in an active galactic nucleus as the origin of the PS16dtm outburst
Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences（捷克科学院天文研究所）；School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University（特拉维夫大学物理与天文学学院）；Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院理论物理中心）；Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University（马萨里克大学理论与天体物理学系）；Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences（捷克科学院物理研究所）；Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Nova Gorica（新戈里察大学天体物理学与宇宙学中心）；Department of Astronomy, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Mathematics（贝尔格莱德大学数学系天文学部）；Hamburger Sternwarte, Universitat Hamburg（汉堡天文台，汉堡大学）
On the origin of anomalous dissipation in simulations of tidal disruption events
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds（利兹大学物理与天文学院）；Department of Physics, Syracuse University（锡拉丘兹大学物理系）；Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University（普林斯顿大学天体科学系）
