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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300413203321

Autore

Stone Nicholas Chamberlain

Titolo

The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes [[electronic resource] ] : An Analytic Approach / / by Nicholas Chamberlain Stone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-12676-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

500.5

520

523.01

530

Soggetti

Astrophysics

Gravitation

Space sciences

Astrophysics and Astroparticles

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Tidal Disruption Rates from Two-Body Relaxation -- Prompt Tidal Disruption of Stars as an Electromagnetic Signature of Supermassive Black Hole Coalescence -- Tidal Disruption Flares of Stars From Moderately Recoiled Black Holes -- Consequences of Strong Compression in Tidal Disruption Events -- General Relativistic Effects in Tidal Disruption Flares -- Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- References -- Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject. This work has shown that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars far outside a galactic nucleus, errors in



the traditional literature have strongly overestimated the maximum luminosity of “deeply plunging” tidal disruptions, the precession of transient accretion disks can encode the spins of supermassive black holes, and much more. This work is based on but differs from the original thesis that was formally defended at Harvard, which received both the Roger Doxsey Award and the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award from the American Astronomical Society.