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Caption: Figure 1.
Top: density stratification adopted for the circumnuclear medium surrounding supermassive black holes with masses MBH = 106 and 107 M⊙, based on the models of F. De Colle et al. (2012b). The complex radial structure motivates the use of numerical simulations to follow the blast-wave evolution. Bottom: jet kinetic luminosity histories adopted in this work. The solid curves correspond to luminosities inferred from simulations of the disruption of a 1 M⊙ star by black holes with masses 106 and 107 M⊙, while the dashed curves represent idealized models with constant luminosity for t < tb (tb = 10, 40, and 120 days), followed by the canonical fallback decay Lj ∝ t−5/3. All models are normalized to the same isotropic-equivalent energy, Eiso = 4 × 1053 erg, allowing the effects of the energy injection history to be isolated.
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