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The Light Curve of Wind-reprocessed Tidal Disruption Events

  • Authors: Brenna Mockler, David Khatami, Daniel Kasen, Xiaoshan Huang, Anthony L. Piro

Brenna Mockler et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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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.

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