{"id":180149,"date":"2024-01-09T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/study-explores-the-properties-of-a-faint-tidal-disruption-event"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:23:22","slug":"study-explores-the-properties-of-a-faint-tidal-disruption-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/study-explores-the-properties-of-a-faint-tidal-disruption-event","title":{"rendered":"Study explores the properties of a faint tidal disruption event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-explores-the-properties-of-a-faint-tidal-disruption-event3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a spectral synthesis code designed to simulate conditions in interstellar matter, astronomers have explored a faint tidal disruption event (TDE) designated iPTF16fnl. Results of the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2312.17417\">published<\/a> Dec. 29 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>, deliver important insights into the properties of this TDE.<\/p>\n<p>TDEs are astronomical phenomena that occur when a star passes close enough to a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/supermassive+black+hole\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supermassive black hole<\/a> and is pulled apart by the black hole\u2019s tidal forces, causing the process of disruption. Such tidally-disrupted stellar debris starts raining down on the black hole and radiation emerges from the innermost region of accreting debris, which is an indicator of the presence of a TDE. All in all, the debris stream-stream collision causes an energy dissipation, which may lead to the formation of an accretion disk.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, TDEs are perceived by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/astronomers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">astronomers<\/a> as potentially important probes of strong gravity and accretion physics, providing answers about the formation and evolution of supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/black+holes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">black holes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a spectral synthesis code designed to simulate conditions in interstellar matter, astronomers have explored a faint tidal disruption event (TDE) designated iPTF16fnl. Results of the study, published Dec. 29 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver important insights into the properties of this TDE. TDEs are astronomical phenomena that occur when a star passes close [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}