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Article: Tidal disruption events in the first billion years of a galaxy

TitleTidal disruption events in the first billion years of a galaxy
Authors
Keywordsgalaxies: dwarf
galaxies: evolution
galaxies: high-redshift
quasars: supermassive black holes
transients: tidal disruption events
Issue Date2021
PublisherRoyal Astronomical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/mnras/
Citation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, v. 500 n. 3, p. 3944-3956 How to Cite?
AbstractAccretion of stars on massive black holes (MBHs) can feed MBHs and generate tidal disruption events (TDEs). We introduce a new physically motivated model to self-consistently treat TDEs in cosmological simulations, and apply it to the assembly of a galaxy with final mass 3 x 10(10) M-circle dot at z = 6. This galaxy exhibits a TDE rate of similar to 10(-5) yr(-1), consistent with local observations but already in place when the Universe was one billion year old. A fraction of the disrupted stars participate in the growth of MBHs, dominating it until the MBH reaches mass similar to 5 x 10(5) M-circle dot, but their contribution then becomes negligible compared to gas. TDEs could be a viable mechanism to grow light MBH seeds, but fewer TDEs are expected when the MBH becomes sufficiently massive to reach the luminosity of, and be detected as, an active galactic nucleus. Galaxy mergers bring multiple MBHs in the galaxy, resulting in an enhancement of the global TDE rate in the galaxy by similar to 1 order of magnitude during 100 Myr around mergers. This enhancement is not on the central MBH, but caused by the presence of MBHs in the infalling galaxies. This is the first self-consistent study of TDEs in a cosmological environment and highlights that accretion of stars and TDEs are a natural process occurring in a Milky Way-mass galaxy at early cosmic times.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/294129
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2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.621
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dc.contributor.authorPfister, H-
dc.contributor.authorDai, JL-
dc.contributor.authorVolonteri, M-
dc.contributor.authorAuchettl, K-
dc.contributor.authorTrebitsch, M-
dc.contributor.authorRamirez-Ruiz, E-
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-23T08:26:44Z-
dc.date.available2020-11-23T08:26:44Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, v. 500 n. 3, p. 3944-3956-
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/294129-
dc.description.abstractAccretion of stars on massive black holes (MBHs) can feed MBHs and generate tidal disruption events (TDEs). We introduce a new physically motivated model to self-consistently treat TDEs in cosmological simulations, and apply it to the assembly of a galaxy with final mass 3 x 10(10) M-circle dot at z = 6. This galaxy exhibits a TDE rate of similar to 10(-5) yr(-1), consistent with local observations but already in place when the Universe was one billion year old. A fraction of the disrupted stars participate in the growth of MBHs, dominating it until the MBH reaches mass similar to 5 x 10(5) M-circle dot, but their contribution then becomes negligible compared to gas. TDEs could be a viable mechanism to grow light MBH seeds, but fewer TDEs are expected when the MBH becomes sufficiently massive to reach the luminosity of, and be detected as, an active galactic nucleus. Galaxy mergers bring multiple MBHs in the galaxy, resulting in an enhancement of the global TDE rate in the galaxy by similar to 1 order of magnitude during 100 Myr around mergers. This enhancement is not on the central MBH, but caused by the presence of MBHs in the infalling galaxies. This is the first self-consistent study of TDEs in a cosmological environment and highlights that accretion of stars and TDEs are a natural process occurring in a Milky Way-mass galaxy at early cosmic times.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherRoyal Astronomical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/mnras/-
dc.relation.ispartofMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society-
dc.subjectgalaxies: dwarf-
dc.subjectgalaxies: evolution-
dc.subjectgalaxies: high-redshift-
dc.subjectquasars: supermassive black holes-
dc.subjecttransients: tidal disruption events-
dc.titleTidal disruption events in the first billion years of a galaxy-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailDai, JL: lixindai@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityDai, JL=rp02540-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/mnras/staa3471-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85098587567-
dc.identifier.hkuros319862-
dc.identifier.volume500-
dc.identifier.issue3-
dc.identifier.spage3944-
dc.identifier.epage3956-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000605983200082-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-

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