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Caption: Figure 1.
This cartoon depicts the main components of a wind-reprocessed TDE. In our simulation, we are assuming a hot X-ray source at the size scale of the forming disk, and reprocessing its emission through winds outflowing from the same radius. As this is a 1D simulation, we do not include the stream; however, we use the orbital properties of the disruption to determine the circularization radius and mass and luminosity evolution.
© 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.