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Dark Energy

Pre-peak Emission in Tidal Disruption Event

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Astronomy
Location
134 Astronomy Building
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Nov 12, 2024   3:45 - 4:45 pm  
Speaker
Professor Xiaoshan Huang
Contact
Daniel Franco
Phone
217-300-6769
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Originating Calendar
Astronomy Colloquium Speaker Calendar

The tidal disruption of a star by a nearby black hole can trigger transient electromagnetic signals in multiple wavebands, making it a well-recognized class of transient events. Understanding the origin of detected emissions from such tidal disruption events (TDEs) is essential to interpret their temporal and spectral evolution.

 In this talk, I will discuss the potential radiative emissions from TDEs during the formation of the accretion disk. We follow the dynamic process before the peak fallback rate with 3D radiation-hydrodynamic simulations. We found that for higher mass black holes, the stream-stream collision can drive strong, optically thick outflows, creating a reprocessing layer in the pre-peak time. When the outflow subsides, dissipation initiates gas circularization and accretion disk formation. The photosphere of such pre-peak TDE systems is likely to be anisotropic, either assembled by the optically thick outflow or early circularization gas.

We study the photometric and spectroscopy signals from the simulated accretion flow by both time-dependent calculations and post-processing. The broad-band spectrum from the simulation favors viewing-angle related effects to explain multi-band emission, even before a standard super-Eddington disk forms.

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