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Peter Clark
@Lightbulb500
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @UoPCosmology working on tidal disruption events and supernovae 💥💥😎. Opinions are my own. 🇪🇺 He/Him
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Feb 26
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It's time for a new paper thread! 🥳
This time on unusual tidal disruption events (TDEs)
If you'd like to skip right to the science, the paper is open access through #MNRAS here:
#AcademicChatter
@UoPCosmology
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academic.oup.com/mnras/article/…
So, for those still here, what is a TDE?
In simplest terms a star plays chicken with a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the centre of a galaxy, loses, and gets torn apart by the gravitational tides.
Which could look something like this…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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