The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes
An Analytic Approach
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Beschreibung
This book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject. This work has shown that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars far outside a galactic nucleus, errors in the traditional literature have strongly overestimated the maximum luminosity of “deeply plunging” tidal disruptions, the precession of transient accretion disks can encode the spins of supermassive black holes, and much more. This work is based on but differs from the original thesis that was formally defended at Harvard, which received both the Roger Doxsey Award and the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award from the American Astronomical Society.
This book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject. This work has shown that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars far outside a galactic nucleus, errors in the traditional literature have strongly overestimated the maximum luminosity of “deeply plunging” tidal disruptions, the precession of transient accretion disks can encode the spins of supermassive black holes, and much more. This work is based on but differs from the original thesis that was formally defended at Harvard, which received both the Roger Doxsey Award and the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award from the American Astronomical Society.
Presents award-winning thesis work with a foreword by supervisor Professor Avi Loeb at Harvard University Provides a thorough introduction to a specialized topic, enabling readers with a general undergraduate physics education to quickly grasp the basics of stellar tidal disruption Offers new ways in which observers can use tidal disruption events to learn about supermassive black holes and to probe general relativistic effects (e.g., black hole spin) in their vicinity Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Nicholas Chamberlain Stone
Themen in »The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes«
Accretion Disk Precession Black Hole Demographics Black Hole Spin Electromagnetic Counterpart Parabolic Free Solutions Stellar Dynamics Stellar Tidal Disruption Supermassive Black Hole