A loud quasi-periodic oscillation after a star is disrupted by a massive black hole
The tidal forces close to massive black holes can rip apart stars that come too close to them. As the resulting stellar debris spirals toward the black hole, the debris heats up and emits x-rays. We report observations of a stable 131-second x-ray quasi-periodic oscillation from the tidal disruption...
Main Authors: | Fragile, P. Chris (Author), Franchini, Alessia (Author), Stone, Nicholas C. (Author), Lodato, Giuseppe (Author), Coughlin, Eric R. (Author), Pasham, Nishanth R. (Author), Pasham, Dheeraj Ranga Reddy (Contributor), Remillard, Ronald A (Contributor), Homan, Jeroen (Contributor), Chakrabarty, Deepto (Contributor), Baganoff, Frederick K (Contributor), Steiner, James F (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
2019-03-12T19:22:20Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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