Tidal Disruption of a Solar Type Star by a Super-Massive Black Hole

Details Tidal Disruption of a Solar Type Star by a Super-Massive Black Hole Tidal Disruption of a Solar Type Star by a Super-Massive Black Hole

2000-02-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002499v2

Astrophys.J. 545 (2000) 772-780

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 13 figures, Revised version as accepted by ApJ. High resolution figures available at http://merger.phys.huji.ac.il

Scientific paper

10.1086/317835

We study the long term evolution of a solar type star that is being disrupted by a super massive (10^6 solar mass) black hole. The evolution is followed from the disruption event, which turns the star into a long thin stream of gas, to the point where some of this gas returns to pericenter and begins its second orbit around the black hole. Following the evolution for this long allows us to determine the amount of mass that is accreted by the black hole. We find that approximately 75% of the returning mass is not accreted but instead becomes unbound, following the large compression characterizing the return to pericenter. The impact of a tidal disruption on the surrounding gas may therefore be like that of two consecutive supernove-type events.

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