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ASASSN-15lh: a TDE about a maximally rotating 109 M⊙ black hole
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We model the light curves of the novel and extremely luminous transient ASASSN-15lh at nine different frequencies, from infrared to ultraviolet photon energies, as an evolving relativistic disc produced in the aftermath of a tidal disruption event (TDE). Good fits to all nine light curves are simultaneously obtained when Macc ≃ 0.07 M⊙ is accreted on to a black hole of mass M ≃ 109 M⊙ and near-maximal rotation a/rg = 0.99. The best-fitting black hole mass is consistent with a number of existi...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/mnrasl/slaa105
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters More from this journal
- Volume:
- 497
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- L13–L18
- Publication date:
- 2020-06-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-05-28
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1745-3933
- ISSN:
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1745-3925
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English
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1111593
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pubs:1111593
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2020-06-11
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- Mummery and Balbus
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
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