Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-tj2md Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-24T06:13:29.842Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

On the likelihood of Gravitational Wave emission during the Tidal Disruption of stars by Super Massive Black Holes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2020

Martina Toscani
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, Pavia, Italy email: mtoscani94@gmail.com
Giuseppe Lodato
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, Milan, Italy email: giuseppe.lodato@unimi.it
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are a common feature between Active and Quiescent Galactic Nuclei; the study of these events is a very useful tool to probe phenomena that relate to the formation of an accretion disc or a jet. Also, the accretion rate at the beginning of the tidal flare is expected to be significantly super-Eddington and might result in high energy emission (in soft X-rays but sometimes up to the gamma regime, as in the the case of Swift J1644, see Komossa 2015). These events may even play an important role in the newborn field of the Multimessenger Astronomy. This work is set within this context. Indeed, it is a study of generation of Gravitational Waves (GWs) from the hot accreting torus resulting after a TDE. Since the torus has only formed recently, magnetic fields are not expected to be strong enough, so that the torus is likely to be unstable to the Papaloizou-Pringle Instability (PPI), producing a strongly varying mass quadrupole. Here, the study of the evolution of such tori is developed, using both analytical calculation and a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulation (SPH). In particular the goal of this work is to determine the GW waveform and to compute the characteristic strain of these GWs in order to see if they are detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2020

References

Komossa, S., 2015, Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, Vol. 7, p 148157CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thorne, K. S., 1998, University of Chicago Press, p. 41Google Scholar
Nealon, R., Price, D. J., Bonnerot, C., Lodato, G., 2017, MNRAS, 17371745Google Scholar
Bonnerot, C., Rossi, E. M., Lodato, G., Price, D. J., 2016, MNRAS, 455, 2253CrossRefGoogle Scholar