2024ApJ...974..165H -
Astrophys. J., 974, 165 (2024/October-3)
Pre-peak Emission in Tidal Disruption Events.
HUANG X., DAVIS S.W. and JIANG Y.-F.
Abstract (from CDS):
The rising part of a tidal disruption event light curve provides unique insight into early emission and the onset of accretion. Various mechanisms are proposed to explain the pre-peak emission, including shocks from debris interaction and reprocessing of disk emission. We study the pre-peak emission and its influence on the gas circularization by a series of gray radiation hydrodynamic simulations with varying black hole mass. We find that, given a super-Eddington fallback rate of $10{\dot{M}}_{\mathrm{Edd}}$, the stream-stream collision can occur multiple times and drive strong outflows of up to $9{\dot{M}}_{\mathrm{Edd}}$. By dispersing gas to ≳100rs, the outflow can delay gas circularization and leads to sub-Eddington accretion rates during the first few stream-stream collisions. The stream-stream collision shock and circularization shock can sustain a luminosity of ∼1044 erg s–1 for days. The luminosity is generally sub-Eddington and shows a weak correlation with accretion rate at early times. The outflow is optically thick, yielding a reprocessing layer with a size of ∼1014 cm and photospheric temperature of ∼4 × 104 K.
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© 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Tidal disruption - Accretion - Compact radiation sources - Hydrodynamical simulations
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