The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes An Analytic Approach

This book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject. This work has shown that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars far outside a galactic nucleus, errors in the traditional...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Nicholas Chamberlain
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02347nmm a2200313 u 4500
001 EB000914042
003 EBX01000000000000000709938
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 150107 ||| eng
020 |a 9783319126760 
100 1 |a Stone, Nicholas Chamberlain 
245 0 0 |a The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b An Analytic Approach  |c by Nicholas Chamberlain Stone 
250 |a 1st ed. 2015 
260 |a Cham  |b Springer International Publishing  |c 2015, 2015 
300 |a XV, 154 p. 45 illus., 39 illus. in color  |b online resource 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Tidal Disruption Rates from Two-Body Relaxation -- Prompt Tidal Disruption of Stars as an Electromagnetic Signature of Supermassive Black Hole Coalescence -- Tidal Disruption Flares of Stars From Moderately Recoiled Black Holes -- Consequences of Strong Compression in Tidal Disruption Events -- General Relativistic Effects in Tidal Disruption Flares -- Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- References -- Appendices 
653 |a Gravitation 
653 |a Space Physics 
653 |a Classical and Quantum Gravity 
653 |a Astrophysics 
653 |a Solar system 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
490 0 |a Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-3-319-12676-0 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12676-0?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 523.01 
520 |a This book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject. This work has shown that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars far outside a galactic nucleus, errors in the traditional literature have strongly overestimated the maximum luminosity of “deeply plunging” tidal disruptions, the precession of transient accretion disks can encode the spins of supermassive black holes, and much more. This work is based on but differs from the original thesis that was formally defended at Harvard, which received both the Roger Doxsey Award and the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award from the American Astronomical Society