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

By Nicholas Chamberlain Stone (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-319-12675-3, 978-3-319-12676-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-12676-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4086517 bytes)
Series
Springer Theses
Edition
1
Pages
154\162
Time added
2015-02-17 02:00:00
Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Classical and QuaRelativity Theory; Extraterrestrial PhysicsSpace Sciences

Description

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.

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