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The Tidal Disruption of Sun-like Stars by Massive Black Holes

  • Authors: Jamie Law-Smith, James Guillochon, and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 882 L25.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Composition (relative to solar) of the fallback material to pericenter as a function of time (relative to the peak of the mass fallback rate). The panels from left to right show full disruptions of a middle-age Sun, a TAMS Sun, and a TAMS 3M star. Solid lines are hydrodynamic simulation results and dashed lines are analytic results from Gallegos-Garcia et al. (2018).

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