Early Phase Coverage of X-ray Flares Associated with Tidal Disruption Events
Abstract
X-ray spectral lines are expected at the beginning of the X-ray flares associated with tidal disruption events (TDE), providing great opportunity to probe the spin of dormant supermassive black holes (SMBHs) as well as detect Bardeen-Petterson (BP) effect. Little is known about the early phase of TDEs observationally. Coverage of the early phase will shed light on accretion physics under extreme conditions inaccessible in other systems. We propose an intensive coverage of the early phase of bright TDE X-ray flares with joint XMM and Swift observations. The observations would lead to the first detection of BP disks expected around spinning SMBHs and the first application of reverberation mapping of the innermost accretion flow around a previously quiescent SMBH.
- Publication:
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XMM-Newton Proposal
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013xmm..prop..162Y
- Keywords:
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- White Dwarf Binaries;
- Neutron Star Binaries;
- Cataclysmic Variables;
- ULXs;
- Black Holes;
- TDE flare-1