Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes
Contributors: Loeb, Abraham; Soderberg, Alicia; Grindlay, Jonathan; Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: This thesis presents theoretical results on the tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The multiwavelength flares produced by tidal disruption events (TDEs) have supernova-like luminosities, and associated relativistic jets can be visible to cosmological distances. TDEs probe the demography of quiescent SMBHs, and are natural laboratories for jet launching mechanisms and super-Eddington accretion.
Notes: Keywords: accretion physics, black holes, galactic nuclei, gravitational waves, jets, tidal disruption.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013