%0 Generic %1 citeulike:13531749 %A Mainetti, Deborah %A Campana, Sergio %A Colpi, Monica %A Lodato, Giuseppe %A D'Avanzo, Paolo %A Evans, Phil %A Moretti, Alberto %D 2015 %K imported %T "Spoon-feeding" an AGN %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07835 %X Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star, passing too close to a massive black hole, is ripped apart by tidal forces. A less dramatic event occurs if the star orbits just outside the tidal radius, resulting in a mild stripping of mass. Thus, if a star orbits a central black hole on one of these bound eccentric orbits, weaker outbursts will occur recurring every orbital period. Thanks to five Swift observations, we observed a recent flare from the close by (92 Mpc) galaxy IC 3599, where a possible TDE was already observed in December 1990 during the Rosat All-Sky Survey. By light curve modeling and spectral fitting, we account for all these events as the non-disruptive tidal stripping of a single star into a 9.5 yr highly eccentric bound orbit. This is the first example of periodic partial tidal disruptions, possibly spoon-feeding the central black hole.

@misc{citeulike:13531749, abstract = {{Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star, passing too close to a massive black hole, is ripped apart by tidal forces. A less dramatic event occurs if the star orbits just outside the tidal radius, resulting in a mild stripping of mass. Thus, if a star orbits a central black hole on one of these bound eccentric orbits, weaker outbursts will occur recurring every orbital period. Thanks to five Swift observations, we observed a recent flare from the close by (92 Mpc) galaxy IC 3599, where a possible TDE was already observed in December 1990 during the Rosat All-Sky Survey. By light curve modeling and spectral fitting, we account for all these events as the non-disruptive tidal stripping of a single star into a 9.5 yr highly eccentric bound orbit. This is the first example of periodic partial tidal disruptions, possibly spoon-feeding the central black hole.}}, added-at = {2019-03-25T08:20:55.000+0100}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Mainetti, Deborah and Campana, Sergio and Colpi, Monica and Lodato, Giuseppe and D'Avanzo, Paolo and Evans, Phil and Moretti, Alberto}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/240f6179e83032e2ab6127d9cd79cba4f/ericblackman}, citeulike-article-id = {13531749}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07835}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.07835}, day = 27, eprint = {1502.07835}, interhash = {0a9256ff875c3133e6ad3e360689f0d2}, intrahash = {40f6179e83032e2ab6127d9cd79cba4f}, keywords = {imported}, month = feb, posted-at = {2015-03-03 04:21:01}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2019-03-25T08:20:55.000+0100}, title = {{"Spoon-feeding" an AGN}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07835}, year = 2015 }