Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) as Probes of Single and Binary SMBHs
Abstract
Stars tidally disrupted and accreted by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) produce luminous X-ray flares, first seen in the ROSAT all-sky survey. Tidal disruption events (TDEs) will be detected in the thousands in upcoming transient surveys, opening up a new window of probing the intermediate-mass BH populations, and providing new probes of accretion physics under extreme conditions, and of the mechanisms of launching jets. I will discuss new results on TDEs, and present the first candidate binary SMBH detected using characteristic features in a TDE outburst lightcurve
- Publication:
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The X-ray Universe 2014
- Pub Date:
- July 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014xru..confE.104K