'Tidal disruption' presentation slideshows

Jets, tidal disruption and lenses

Jets, tidal disruption and lenses. Plan and reviews. Plan. Jets : AGNs and close binary systems Tidal distruption of stars by SMBHs Spectral lines and lensing. Reviews. astro-ph/0611521 High-Energy Aspects of Astrophysical Jets astro-ph/0306429 Extreme blazars

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Exploring Local Dark Matter with the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM PlanetQuest)

Exploring Local Dark Matter with the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM PlanetQuest). Figure courtesy of B. Gibson (Central Lancashire). Steven Majewski (Univ.Virginia). From Quantum to Cosmos: Fundamental Physics in Space for the Next Decade.

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Rubble Piles & Monoliths

Rubble Piles & Monoliths. This online version does not include the movies. Please e-mail dcr@astro.umd.edu if you want them. Derek C. Richardson (U Maryland). Preshattered. Rubble. CD-VI Cannes. Collaborators. Overview. Gravitational Aggregates What are they? Do they exist?

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High-energy emission from the tidal disruption of stars by massive black holes

---preliminary results. High-energy emission from the tidal disruption of stars by massive black holes. Xiang-Yu Wang Nanjing University, China Collaborators: K. S. Cheng(HKU), Ruo-Yu Liu(NJU). The basic picture. Rees 1988: When r<r_t, the star is captured by the BH

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Transient activities of supermasive binary black holes in normal galactic nuclei

LSST and opportunities of PKU Astrophysics Beijing , 4 Dec. 2011. Transient activities of supermasive binary black holes in normal galactic nuclei. Fukun Liu Astronomy Department, Peking University. Collaborators

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Introduction Highly accreting AGN on the M-sigma relation Flares from tidally disrupted stars

High accretion rates, tidal disruption flares and recoils: recent results on supermassive black holes. Stefanie Komossa MPE. Introduction Highly accreting AGN on the M-sigma relation Flares from tidally disrupted stars Recoiling black holes.

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Saturn and its ring

Saturn and its ring. Recall basic facts about Saturn. Further from the Sun than Jupiter (a =9.54 au) Systematically colder as a result 95 Earth masses Diameter 9.5 times that of Earth Like Jupiter, only less extreme. Most unique feature of Saturn: the ring. What are its properties?

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UV/Optical Detections of Candidate Tidal Disruption Events by GALEX and CFHTLS

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