Tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes: The X-ray view
The tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes produces luminous soft X-ray accretion flares in otherwise inactive galaxies. First events have been discovered in X-rays with the ROSAT observatory, and have more recently been detected with XMM-Newton, Chandra and Swift, and at other wavele...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2012-12-01
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Series: | EPJ Web of Conferences |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123902001 |