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Title
The tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes [electronic resource] : an analytic approach / Nicholas Chamberlain Stone.
ISBN
9783319126760 electronic book
3319126768 electronic book
9783319126753
Published
Cham ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Dordrecht ; London : Springer, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 154 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-12676-0 doi
Call Number
QB843.B55
Dewey Decimal Classification
523.8875
Summary
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 ℓ́ℓdeeply plungingℓ́ℓ 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.
Note
"Doctoral thesis accepted by Harvard University, USA".
Dissertation Note
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-154).
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Springer theses.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319126753
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.
