2025ApJ...992L..18S


Query : 2025ApJ...992L..18S

2025ApJ...992L..18S - Astrophys. J., 992, L18 (2025/October-3)

The First Radio-bright Off-nuclear Tidal Disruption Event AT 2024tvd Reveals the Fastest-evolving Double-peaked Radio Emission.

SFARADI I., MARGUTTI R., CHORNOCK R., ALEXANDER K.D., METZGER B.D., BENIAMINI P., BARNIOL DURAN R., YAO Y., HORESH A., FARAH W., BERGER E., NAYANA A.J., CENDES Y., EFTEKHARI T., FENDER R., FRANZ N., GREEN D.A., HAMMERSTEIN E., LU W., WISTON E., BERNSTEIN Y., BRIGHT J., CHRISTY C.T., CRUZ L.F., DEBOER D.R., GOLAY W.W., GOODWIN A.J., GURWELL M., KEATING G.K., LASKAR T., MILLER-JONES J.C.A., POLLAK A.W., RAO R., SIEMION A., SHEIKH S.Z., SHOVAL N. and VAN VELZEN S.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the first multiepoch broadband radio and millimeter monitoring of an off-nuclear tidal disruption event (TDE) using the Very Large Array, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, the Allen Telescope Array, the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array, and the Submillimeter Array. The off-nuclear TDE AT 2024tvd exhibits double-peaked radio light curves and the fastest-evolving radio emission observed from a TDE to date. With respect to the optical discovery date, the first radio flare rises faster than Fν ∼ t9 at Δt = 88-131 days and then decays as fast as Fν ∼ t–6. The emergence of a second radio flare is observed at Δt ≈ 194 days with an initial fast rise of Fν ∼ t18 and an optically thin decline of Fν ∼ t–12. We interpret these observations in the context of a self-absorbed and free-free absorbed synchrotron spectrum, while accounting for both synchrotron and inverse Compton cooling. We find that a single prompt outflow cannot easily explain these observations and that it is likely that either there is only one outflow that was launched at Δt ∼ 80 days or there are two distinct outflows, with the second launched at Δt ∼ 170-190 days. The nature of these outflows, whether sub-, mildly, or ultrarelativistic, is still unclear, and we explore these different scenarios. Finally, we find a temporal coincidence between the launch time of the first radio-emitting outflow and the onset of a power-law component in the X-ray spectrum, attributed to inverse Compton scattering of thermal photons.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Tidal disruption - Supermassive black holes - Radio astronomy - Time domain astronomy

Status at CDS : Large table(s) will be appraised for possible ingestion in VizieR.

Simbad objects: 13

goto Full paper

goto View the references in ADS

Number of rows : 13
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 [FWB2009] HLX-1 ULX 01 10 28.30 -46 04 22.3     24.5 23.80   ~ 230 1
2 AT 2019ahk ev 07 00 11.410 -66 02 25.16           ~ 57 0
3 Z 119-12 SyG 08 13 16.9505119752 +22 38 53.905852212           ~ 156 0
4 2MASS J10065085+0141342 G 10 06 50.8773292152 +01 41 34.006164648   18.082   17.032   SNII 127 0
5 EP 240222a ev 11 32 06.17 +27 00 17.6           ~ 6 0
6 ZW VIII 211 rG 12 48 15.2253025968 +17 46 26.475426228   16.5       ~ 360 0
7 AT 2022cmc ev 13 34 43.207 +33 13 00.54           ~ 79 0
8 eRASSt J142140-295321 ev 14 21 39.721 -29 53 22.57           ~ 1 0
9 AT 2020vwl ev 15 30 37.800 +26 58 56.90           ~ 40 0
10 SWIFT J164449.3+573451 G 16 44 47.81184000 +57 35 00.7113480           ~ 533 0
11 AT 2024tvd ev 17 10 42.585 +28 50 15.11           ~ 7 0
12 ASASSN -15oi SN* 20 39 09.096 -30 45 20.71           ~ 184 0
13 2MASX J20570298+1412165 G 20 57 02.9650698480 +14 12 16.295014080           ~ 162 0

To bookmark this query, right click on this link: simbad:objects in 2025ApJ...992L..18S and select 'bookmark this link' or equivalent in the popup menu