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Caption: Figure 4.
(Top) Regions in parameter space for five kinds of disruption events: partial TDE (orange), common full TDE (blue), circularized TDE (red), and direct capture (gray, r p < 4g). We define partial TDEs as events where the star loses more than 10% of its mass at the first pericenter passage. This plot is an extended version of Figure 3 in Krolik et al. (2020). (Bottom) The cross section as a function of M BH for each class of observable full disruption events, i.e., common (dashed black), circularized (dotted black), extreme (solid red), in units of the total disruption cross section for a 1 M ⊙ main-sequence star.
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