dc.contributor.author | Fragile, P. Chris | |
dc.contributor.author | Franchini, Alessia | |
dc.contributor.author | Stone, Nicholas C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lodato, Giuseppe | |
dc.contributor.author | Coughlin, Eric R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pasham, Nishanth R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pasham, Dheeraj Ranga Reddy | |
dc.contributor.author | Remillard, Ronald A | |
dc.contributor.author | Homan, Jeroen | |
dc.contributor.author | Chakrabarty, Deepto | |
dc.contributor.author | Baganoff, Frederick K | |
dc.contributor.author | Steiner, James F | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-12T19:22:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-12T19:22:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-12 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2017-12 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0036-8075 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1095-9203 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120934 | |
dc.description.abstract | The tidal forces close to massive black holes can rip apart stars that come too close to them. As the resulting stellar debris spirals toward the black hole, the debris heats up and emits x-rays. We report observations of a stable 131-second x-ray quasi-periodic oscillation from the tidal disruption event ASASSN-14li. Assuming the black hole mass indicated by host galaxy scaling relations, these observations imply that the periodicity originates from close to the event horizon and that the black hole is rapidly spinning. Our findings demonstrate that tidal disruption events can generate quasi-periodic oscillations that encode information about the physical properties of their black holes. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant PF6-170156) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant PF6-170150) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant PF5-160144) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant PF5-160145) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Award SV2-82023) | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aar7480 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | arXiv | en_US |
dc.title | A loud quasi-periodic oscillation after a star is disrupted by a massive black hole | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | A loud quasi-periodic oscillation after a star is disrupted by a massive black hole | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Pasham, Dheeraj R. et al. “A Loud Quasi-Periodic Oscillation after a Star Is Disrupted by a Massive Black Hole.” Science 363, 6426 (January 2019): 531–534 © 2017 The Authors | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Pasham, Dheeraj Ranga Reddy | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Remillard, Ronald A | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Homan, Jeroen | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Chakrabarty, Deepto | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Baganoff, Frederick K | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Steiner, James F | |
dc.relation.journal | Science | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Original manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/NonPeerReviewed | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2019-03-12T15:27:13Z | |
dspace.orderedauthors | Pasham, Dheeraj R.; Remillard, Ronald A.; Fragile, P. Chris; Franchini, Alessia; Stone, Nicholas C.; Lodato, Giuseppe; Homan, Jeroen; Chakrabarty, Deepto; Baganoff, Frederick K.; Steiner, James F.; Coughlin, Eric R.; Pasham, Nishanth R. | en_US |
dspace.embargo.terms | N | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8804-8946 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3852-6545 | |
mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |