Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 39, 2012
Tidal Disruption Events and AGN Outbursts
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Article Number | 01004 | |
Number of page(s) | 3 | |
Section | Tidal Disruption Theory and Predictions | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123901004 | |
Published online | 18 December 2012 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123901004
Tidal disruption flares from stars on eccentric orbits
1 Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
2 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
3 Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daedeokdaero 776, Yuseong, Daejeon 305-348, Korea
a e-mail: kimi@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp; kimi@kasi.re.kr
We study tidal disruption and subsequent mass fallback for stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find that the mass fallback rate decays with the expected -5/3 power of time for parabolic orbits, albeit with a slight deviation due to the self-gravity of the stellar debris. For eccentric orbits, however, there is a critical value of the orbital eccentricity, significantly below which all of the stellar debris is bound to the supermassive black hole. All the mass therefore falls back to the supermassive black hole in a much shorter time than in the standard, parabolic case. The resultant mass fallback rate considerably exceeds the Eddington accretion rate and substantially differs from the -5/3 power of time.
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