平方公里阵列射电望远镜（SKA）探测潮汐瓦解事件
Tidal Disruption Events with the SKA
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中文总结 AI 辅助
本文阐述SKA凭借高灵敏度、宽频带、VLBI等能力，可推动潮汐瓦解事件（TDE）射电研究从个案分析转向种群规模推断，助力理解喷流物理与黑洞统计特征。
中文摘要 AI 辅助
潮汐瓦解事件（TDE）及相关核暂现源可用于研究喷流启动、吸积盘形成与圆化、粒子加速以及环核介质（CNM）。然而，仅小部分TDE会启动相对论性喷流，多数热TDE的射电辐射较弱或延迟，星系核中黑洞的统计特征仍未被充分理解。SKA具备微央斯基级灵敏度、宽频带、长基线、快速响应能力，可在50-350 MHz（SKA-Low）与0.35-15.4 GHz（SKA-Mid）频段开展 commensal 巡天，将推动该领域发展。其灵敏度、频率覆盖范围及甚长基线干涉测量（VLBI）能力，可将射热量度从少数研究充分的近邻事件拓展至非相对论性外流的体积受限样本；能常规探测离轴喷流与中度相对论性喷流，通过低频同步辐射 turnover 的演化追踪CNM密度分布，以亚角秒精度定位微弱的核外暂现源。这些数据将约束喷流发生率、能量、几何结构与磁化强度，通过激波相互作用绘制CNM分布图，验证其与变亮活动星系核（AGN）及高能中微子的关联，识别与反冲超大质量或中等质量黑洞相关的核外事件。本文探讨了 commensal 巡天、快速触发及SKA-VLBI的优势，基于AA*与AA4的预计性能给出预测。SKA将把TDE射电研究从逐案详细分析转向种群规模推断，推进喷流物理与黑洞统计特征的研究。
英文摘要
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) and related nuclear transients probe jet launching, disk formation and circularization, particle acceleration, and the circumnuclear medium (CNM). However, the small fraction of events launching relativistic jets, the weak or delayed radio emission of many thermal TDEs, and the black-hole demographics of galactic nuclei remain poorly understood. SKA, with microJy sensitivity, wide bandwidth, long baselines, rapid response, and commensal surveys across 50-350 MHz (SKA-Low) and 0.35-15.4 GHz (SKA-Mid), will transform this field. Its sensitivity, frequency coverage, and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) capability will extend radio calorimetry from a few well-studied nearby events to volume-limited samples of non-relativistic outflows. The SKA will bring off-axis and mildly relativistic jets into routine reach, trace CNM density profiles through the evolution of the low-frequency synchrotron turnover, and localize faint off-nuclear transients with sub-arcsecond precision. These data will constrain jet incidence, energetics, geometry, and magnetization, map the CNM through shock interactions, test links to changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN) and high-energy neutrinos, and identify off-nuclear events associated with recoiling supermassive or intermediate-mass black holes. We discuss the benefits of commensal surveys, rapid triggering, and SKA-VLBI, and provide predictions based on the projected performance of AA* and AA4. SKA will shift TDE radio studies from detailed case-by-case studies to population-scale inference, advancing studies of jet physics and black-hole demographics.
