Speaker
Richard Saxton
(ESAC)
Description
The field of tidal disruption events (TDEs) always active, has exploded in the last five years, both in terms of the number of events being found and the breadth of detail which is being revealed. In this talk I give an overview of the current state of the field, focusing on the accretion disc physics revealed by the drastic changes of accretion rate experienced as the event evolves. The importance of repeating partial tidal disruption events, where the donor stellar object survives several passages close to the black hole, is becoming better appreciated. The possible relationship between those events and Quasi-Periodic eruptions (QPEs) is briefly explored.
Primary author
Richard Saxton
(ESAC)
Co-authors
Andrew Read
(Leicester University)
Arne Rau
(MPE)
Dongyue Li
(NAOC)
Giovanni Miniutti
(CAB)
Kate Alexander
(Steward Observatory)
Margherita Giustini
(CAB)
Prof.
Peter Jonker
(Radboud University & SRON)
Sjoert VanVelzen
(Leiden Observatory)
Thomas Wevers
(Space Telescope Science Institute)
Zhu Liu
(MPE)
