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INEVITABLE QUESTION. “A major goal of this paper is to determine the tidal energy and angular momentum transfer rates for a WD in a high-eccentricity orbit around an MBH.” (WD = white dwarf; MBH = Massive Black Hole). https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

LOWER LIMIT. “An otherwise quiet MBH would show bright, beamed emission after the disruption of a WD. Therefore, detecting (or not detecting) signals from the tidal disruptions of WDs could place constraints on the MBH population.” (WD = white dwarf; MBH = Massive Black Hole). https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

VERIFIED. “There are now a few cases in which hard X-ray emission from launching a relativistic jet was observed following a flare from stellar disruption.” https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

PREDICTION. “We expect these disruption events to be very luminous as a portion of the accretion power likely channels into a relativistic jet.” https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

MASS DEPENDENT. “The possibility of detecting WD-TDEs is especially intriguing because the disruption of a WD is only visible if the mass of the BH, Mbh, is less than about 10(5) M⊙ or perhaps 10(6) M⊙ depending on the BH spin. For a more massive BH, the WD is ‘swallowed whole’ without disruption.” (WD = white dwarf; TDE = tidal disruption event). https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

SHREDDING AND HI ENERGY BURSTS. “It has been suggested that WD-TDEs could be a source of a recently discovered population of ultra-long gamma-ray bursts.” (WD = white dwarf; TDE = tidal disruption event). https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

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EXPLAINING SHREDDING, “Over the last decade, dozens of TDE candidates have been discovered, and the detection of various exotic transients has renewed interest in theoretical models of TDEs. Some of the most unusual candidate events could be explained as the tidal disruption of a white dwarf (WD) by a moderately massive black hole (MBH).” (TDE = tidal disruption event). https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

APPROACHING DEATH. “It is likely that the WD will only experience one tidal nova before disruption. However, as the WD continues to inspiral, the tidal heating rate will increase steeply as a function of decreasing η. This strong dependence presents the possibility of multiple novae before disruption, which may produce a distinctive observational signature.” (WD = white dwarf). https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn