Tidal disruption events in the first billion years of a galaxy
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Tidal disruption events in the first billion years of a galaxy. / Pfister, Hugo; Dai, Jane Lixin; Volonteri, Marta; Auchettl, Katie; Trebitsch, Maxime; Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico.
I: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Bind 500, Nr. 3, 01.01.2021, s. 3944-3956.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Tidal disruption events in the first billion years of a galaxy
AU - Pfister, Hugo
AU - Dai, Jane Lixin
AU - Volonteri, Marta
AU - Auchettl, Katie
AU - Trebitsch, Maxime
AU - Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - Accretion of stars on massive black holes (MBHs) can feed MBHs and generate tidal disruption events (TDEs). We introduce a new physically motivated model to self-consistently treat TDEs in cosmological simulations, and apply it to the assembly of a galaxy with final mass 3 x 10(10) M-circle dot at z = 6. This galaxy exhibits a TDE rate of similar to 10(-5) yr(-1), consistent with local observations but already in place when the Universe was one billion year old. A fraction of the disrupted stars participate in the growth of MBHs, dominating it until the MBH reaches mass similar to 5 x 10(5) M-circle dot, but their contribution then becomes negligible compared to gas. TDEs could be a viable mechanism to grow light MBH seeds, but fewer TDEs are expected when the MBH becomes sufficiently massive to reach the luminosity of, and be detected as, an active galactic nucleus. Galaxy mergers bring multiple MBHs in the galaxy, resulting in an enhancement of the global TDE rate in the galaxy by similar to 1 order of magnitude during 100 Myr around mergers. This enhancement is not on the central MBH, but caused by the presence of MBHs in the infalling galaxies. This is the first self-consistent study of TDEs in a cosmological environment and highlights that accretion of stars and TDEs are a natural process occurring in a Milky Way-mass galaxy at early cosmic times.
AB - Accretion of stars on massive black holes (MBHs) can feed MBHs and generate tidal disruption events (TDEs). We introduce a new physically motivated model to self-consistently treat TDEs in cosmological simulations, and apply it to the assembly of a galaxy with final mass 3 x 10(10) M-circle dot at z = 6. This galaxy exhibits a TDE rate of similar to 10(-5) yr(-1), consistent with local observations but already in place when the Universe was one billion year old. A fraction of the disrupted stars participate in the growth of MBHs, dominating it until the MBH reaches mass similar to 5 x 10(5) M-circle dot, but their contribution then becomes negligible compared to gas. TDEs could be a viable mechanism to grow light MBH seeds, but fewer TDEs are expected when the MBH becomes sufficiently massive to reach the luminosity of, and be detected as, an active galactic nucleus. Galaxy mergers bring multiple MBHs in the galaxy, resulting in an enhancement of the global TDE rate in the galaxy by similar to 1 order of magnitude during 100 Myr around mergers. This enhancement is not on the central MBH, but caused by the presence of MBHs in the infalling galaxies. This is the first self-consistent study of TDEs in a cosmological environment and highlights that accretion of stars and TDEs are a natural process occurring in a Milky Way-mass galaxy at early cosmic times.
KW - galaxies: dwarf
KW - galaxies: evolution
KW - galaxies: high-redshift
KW - quasars: supermassive black holes
KW - transients: tidal disruption events
KW - SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLES
KW - DYNAMICAL FRICTION
KW - STAR-CLUSTERS
KW - RATES
KW - REDSHIFT
KW - FEEDBACK
KW - GROWTH
KW - REFINEMENT
KW - ACCRETION
KW - EVOLUTION
U2 - 10.1093/mnras/staa3471
DO - 10.1093/mnras/staa3471
M3 - Journal article
VL - 500
SP - 3944
EP - 3956
JO - Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices
JF - Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices
SN - 0035-8711
IS - 3
ER -
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