The giant X-ray outbursts from nearby, non-active galaxies: tidal disruption flares ?
| dc.creator | Komossa, Stefanie | |
| dc.date | 2000-01-14 | |
| dc.date | 2000-05-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T01:51:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T01:51:44Z | |
| dc.description | One efficient method to probe the direct vicinity of SMBHs in nearby galaxies is to make use of the detection of flares from tidally disrupted stars (e.g., Lidskii & Ozernoi 1979, Rees 1988). The first few excellent candidates for the occurrence of this process in non-active galaxies have emerged recently. Here, we present a review of these observations, compare with variability in AGN, and discuss theoretical implications. We concentrate on the cases of NGC 5905 and RXJ1242-1119, and report results from a systematic search for further X-ray flares from a sample of >100 nearby galaxies. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages incl. 2 figures, needs agnsymp.cls; to appear in `ASCA/ROSAT Workshop on AGN and the X-ray Background' (Tokyo, Nov. 1-3, 1999), T. Takahashi and H. Inoue (eds). Typo in equation (1) corrected. Preprint and related papers also available at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~skomossa/ | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001264 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001264 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/399 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | The giant X-ray outbursts from nearby, non-active galaxies: tidal disruption flares ? | |
| dc.type | text |