Anticipating the Rising Tide of Tidal Disruption Events: Theory and Observations

Coordinators: Kate Alexander, Eric Coughlin, Decker French and Suvi Gezari

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), which occur when a star is destroyed by the immense tidal field of a supermassive black hole, fuel luminous accretion flares that provide unique insight into the properties of galactic nuclei and their central black holes. The detection rate of these events has accelerated in recent years thanks to advances in wide-field survey capabilities across the electromagnetic spectrum. Nonetheless, there remain theoretical uncertainties in the modeling of TDEs that obfuscate understanding in the face of observations, and our ability to use TDEs as a collective Rosetta Stone for deciphering black hole demographics across cosmic time remains elusive. To bridge theory and observation and to start to tap the wealth of understanding contained within TDE observations, this conference aims to unite the diverse field of astronomers working on TDEs and the related fields of variable Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN; including quasi-periodic eruptions, QPEs) and X-ray binaries. This conference will highlight the recent advances that have been made in understanding TDEs, make connections to related astrophysical phenomena, and elucidate the most outstanding questions in TDE theory and observation.

PLEASE NOTE: For this conference, upon registering you will have the opportunity to submit an abstract to present your work, the deadline for abstract submission is March 1st. We have a limited number of remaining slots to be filled with contributed talks, and in the event that we are unable to fit you into the talk schedule, we may be able to assign your abstract to a poster that will be displayed throughout the duration of the conference. Each poster board is 4 feet high x 6 feet wide. We ask that the posters be no larger than 44 inches high x 34 inches wide at the most (it is important to follow these measurements or posters may be turned down due to limited space).

2024

Thursday, Apr 25, 2024

  • Chair: Itai Linial (IAS) 09:00AM Connecting Theory and Observations/Rates Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion
    • 09:00AM Sjoert Van Velzen (Leiden Obs.) Current status of TDE observations: the promise of population studies
    • 09:45AM Brian Metzger (Columbia) Cooling Envelope Model for Tidal Disruption Events
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 11:00AM Tatsuya Akiba (CU Boulder) On the Hunt for Rogue Supermassive Black Holes Using Tidal Disruption Events
    • 11:30AM Yihan Wang (UNLV) Enhanced Tidal Disruption Event Rate in Active Galactic Nuclei
    • 12:00PM Grant Weldon (UCLA) A model for repeated tidal disruption events in supermassive black hole binaries
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • Chair: Eliot Quataert (Princeton) 02:00PM Jets and Outflows Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 02:00PM Assaf Horesh (Hebrew Univ.) Delayed Radio Flares - A New Phenomenon in Tidal Disruption Events
    • 02:30PM Paz Beniamini (Open Univ. of Israel) Relativistic outflows in tidal disruption events: rates, energetics and implications for UHECRs
    • 03:00PM Peter Clark (Portsmouth) Extreme Coronal Line Emitters: Tidal disruption events in complex environments
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     
    • 04:00PM Collin Christy (Univ. of Arizona/Steward Observatory) Radio Evolution of the Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-19bt: Evidence for a Highly Off-Axis Relativistic Jet
    • 04:30PM Tatsuya Matsumoto (Kyoto Univ.) Origins of late-time radio emission in TDEs
    • 05:00PM Igor Andreoni (Maryland) A Luminous Relativistic Tidal Disruption Event Identified by the ZTF Optical Survey
  • 05:30PM RECEPTION Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 07:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Monday, Apr 22, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Tuesday, Apr 23, 2024

  • Chair: Kate Alexander (Univ. of Arizona) 08:50AM Topic: X-ray and radio observations of TDEs Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 08:50AM Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • 09:00AM Muryel Guolo (Johns Hopkins) A systematic analysis of the X-ray emission in optically selected TDEs
    • 09:30AM Adelle Goodwin (Curtin Univ.) Radio emission from tidal disruption events: unveiling a population of prompt outflows launched during the stellar disruption
    • 10:00AM Jean Somalwar (Caltech) Discovering Tidal Disruption Events in Radio Surveys
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     
    • 11:00AM Yuhan Yao (UCB) Hour Timescale X-ray Variability Following a Tidal Disruption Event in a 1e+5 Msun Black Hole
    • 11:30AM Yvette Cendes (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) Ubiquitous Delayed Radio Emission in TDEs
    • 12:00PM Aprajita Hajela (Univ. Copenhagen) Unraveling the Complexity of Tidal Disruption Events with Multi-wavelength Observations of ASASSN-15oi *REMOTE*
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • Chair: Thomas Wevers (STSCI) 02:00PM (Optical/UV emission from TDEs+host galaxies) Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 02:00PM Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv Univ.) Observations of TDEs and Other Nuclear Transients
    • 02:30PM Erica Hammerstein (Maryland) Population Studies of Tidal Disruption Events and their Hosts: Understanding Host Galaxy Preferences & the Origin of the UV/Optical Emission
    • 03:00PM Yannis Liodakis (MSFC) Understanding Tidal Disruption Events through their polarized emission
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     
    • 04:00PM Sebastian Gomez (STScI) The Search for Tidal Disruption Events
    • 04:30PM Megan Masterson (MIT) A New Population of Mid-Infrared-Selected Tidal Disruption Events
    • 05:00PM Ann Zabludoff (Arizona) Using Dwarf Post-Starburst Galaxies as Probes of TDEs around Intermediate Mass Black Holes
  • 05:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Wednesday, Apr 24, 2024

  • Chair: Decker French (UIUC) 09:00AM TDE theory: disruption process, stream evolution Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 09:00AM Megha Sharma (Monash Univ.) *Remote* Partial tidal disruption events: elixir of life
    • 09:30AM Debojyoti Garain (IIT Kanpur) *Remote* Partial tidal disruptions of spinning eccentric white dwarfs by spinning intermediate mass black holes
    • 10:00AM Pavan Vynatheya (MPA) Exploring the remains of stars disrupted by stellar black holes
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • Chair: Decker French (UIUC) 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     
    • 11:00AM Fulya Kiroglu (Northwestern) Accretion-induced spin-up of black holes through TDEs in dense star clusters
    • 11:30AM Ananya Bandopadhyay (Syracuse) The Peak of the Fallback Rate from Tidal Disruption Events: Dependence on Stellar Type
    • 12:00PM Kyle Kremer (Caltech) Hydrodynamics of Collisions and Close Encounters between Compact Objects and Stars in Dense Stellar Environments
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • Chair: Eric Coughlin (Syracuse) 02:00PM Disc Formation and Accretion Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 02:00PM Jane Dai (HKU) Tidal disruption Events: From Accretion and Outflow to Emission
    • 02:30PM Richard Saxton (ESAC) What can X-ray selected TDEs tell us about the physics of disruption and accretion?
    • 03:00PM Xiaoshan Huang (Caltech) Pre-peak emission in TDEs
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • Chair: Eric Coughlin (Syracuse) 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     
    • 04:00PM Clement Bonnerot (Univ. Birmingham) First light from tidal disruption events
    • 04:30PM Simona Pacuraru (Univ. Birmingham) Magnetic field evolution in tidal disruption events
    • 05:00PM Fitz Hu (Monash Univ.) Why do tidal disruption events shine in optical and radio more than X-ray
  • 05:30PM RECEPTION Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 07:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Thursday, Apr 25, 2024

  • Chair: Itai Linial (IAS) 09:00AM Connecting Theory and Observations/Rates Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion
    • 09:00AM Sjoert Van Velzen (Leiden Obs.) Current status of TDE observations: the promise of population studies
    • 09:45AM Brian Metzger (Columbia) Cooling Envelope Model for Tidal Disruption Events
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 11:00AM Tatsuya Akiba (CU Boulder) On the Hunt for Rogue Supermassive Black Holes Using Tidal Disruption Events
    • 11:30AM Yihan Wang (UNLV) Enhanced Tidal Disruption Event Rate in Active Galactic Nuclei
    • 12:00PM Grant Weldon (UCLA) A model for repeated tidal disruption events in supermassive black hole binaries
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • Chair: Eliot Quataert (Princeton) 02:00PM Jets and Outflows Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 02:00PM Assaf Horesh (Hebrew Univ.) Delayed Radio Flares - A New Phenomenon in Tidal Disruption Events
    • 02:30PM Paz Beniamini (Open Univ. of Israel) Relativistic outflows in tidal disruption events: rates, energetics and implications for UHECRs
    • 03:00PM Peter Clark (Portsmouth) Extreme Coronal Line Emitters: Tidal disruption events in complex environments
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     
    • 04:00PM Collin Christy (Univ. of Arizona/Steward Observatory) Radio Evolution of the Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-19bt: Evidence for a Highly Off-Axis Relativistic Jet
    • 04:30PM Tatsuya Matsumoto (Kyoto Univ.) Origins of late-time radio emission in TDEs
    • 05:00PM Igor Andreoni (Maryland) A Luminous Relativistic Tidal Disruption Event Identified by the ZTF Optical Survey
  • 05:30PM RECEPTION Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 07:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Friday, Apr 26, 2024

  • Chair: Brian Metzger (Columbia) 09:00AM Quasi-periodic eruptions Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion
    • 09:00AM Eliot Quataert (Princeton) QPEs, TDEs, and other fun Stuff from Stars Orbiting (too) Close to Massive Black Holes
    • 09:45AM Riccardo Arcodia (MIT) QPEs and their connection with TDEs: where do we stand?
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 11:00AM Wenbin Lu (UCB) General Constraints on the Origin of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions
    • 11:30AM Itai Linial (IAS) EMRI+TDE=QPE: Star-Disc Interaction and Quasi-Periodic Eruptions
    • 12:00PM Joheen Chakraborty (MIT) The observed connection between QPEs and TDEs, and testing EMRI models for eRO-QPE1
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • Chair: Ann Zabludoff (Arizona) 02:00PM Repeating nuclear transients, ambiguous nuclear transients, other weird things Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

    Talks are 20 min + 10 min discussion
    • 02:00PM Thomas Wevers (STScI) Repeating nuclear transients: one (not so big) happy family?
    • 02:30PM Matt Nicholl (Queen's Belfast) Evidence for stellar-mass TDEs: luminous, fast-cooling transients in the outskirts of elliptical galaxies
    • 03:00PM Jason Hinkle (Hawaii) The Elusive Class of Ambiguous Nuclear Transients: Observational Trends, Physical Interpretations, and Open Questions
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     
  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     
    • 04:00PM Nicholas Earl (UIUC) AT2020nov: Tidal Disruption Event within a Pre-existing AGN-like Disk
    • 04:30PM Denyz Melchor (UCLA) Tidal disruption events galore, could you want more? On the formation of repeated TDEs
    • 05:00PM Alessia Franchini (Zurich) Can QPEs shed light on TDEs?
  • 05:30PM CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location.(See Registration Desk BEFORE FRIDAY to sign up.) Gurley Courtyard

     

2024

Saturday, Apr 27, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Sunday, Apr 28, 2024

No talks scheduled.