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Caption: Figure 17.
Peak luminosity vs. black hole mass for PS16dtm, CSS100217, ASASSN-14li, and the sample of TDEs considered by Hung et al. (2017). The three dashed lines represent luminosity as a function of black hole mass for Eddington ratios of 1, 0.1, and 0.01. For ASASSN-14li, we use the black hole mass estimate from Miller et al. (2015). This plot suggests the possibility that TDEs that occur in galaxies hosting an AGN exhibit more efficient accretion, allowing them to radiate at the Eddington luminosity of the SMBH, than TDEs that occur in inactive galaxies.
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