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تسجيل مستخدم جديدCompact Resolved Ejecta in the Nearest Tidal Disruption Event
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Eric S. Perlman
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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star or sub-stellar object passes close enough to a galaxys supermassive black hole to be disrupted by tidal forces. NGC 4845 (d=17 Mpc) was host to a TDE, IGR J12580+0134, detected in November 2010. Its proximity offers us a unique close-up of the TDE and its aftermath. We discuss new Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) observations, which show that the radio flux from the active nucleus created by the TDE has decayed in a manner consistent with predictions from a jet-circumnuclear medium interaction model. This model explains the sources broadband spectral evolution, which shows a spectral peak that has moved from the submm (at the end of 2010) to GHz radio frequencies (in 2011-2013) to <1 GHz in 2015. The milliarcsecond-scale core is circularly polarized at 1.5 GHz but not at 5 GHz, consistent with the model. The VLBA images show a complex structure at 1.5 GHz that includes an east west extension ~40 milliarcsec (3 pc) long as well as a resolved component 52 milliarcsec (4.1 pc) northwest of the flat-spectrum core, which is all that can be seen at 5 GHz. If ejected in 2010, the NW component must have had v=0.96 c over five years. However, this is unlikely, as our model suggests strong deceleration to speeds < 0.5c within months and a much smaller, sub-parsec size. In this interpretation, the northwest component could have either a non-nuclear origin or be from an earlier event.
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