| Proposal ID | 082204 |
| Title | Probing the Accretion Timescales in Tidal Disruption Events with ZTF and XMM |
| Download Data Associated to the proposal | https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0822040301 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-kv08zf7 |
| Principal Investigator, PI | Prof Suvi Gezari |
| Abstract | The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is poised to produce the first statisticallysignificant sample of tidal disruption events (TDEs) from a single survey.However, despite this exciting progress in assembling large samples of TDEs, thenature of their optical emission remains a mystery. One of the physical modelsthat is gaining ground is that the optical component originates from alarger-scale structure associated with stream-stream collisions of the boundstellar debris, distinct from the newly formed debris disk powering the softX-ray emission. With this XMM-Newton program, we aim to test this model bymeasuring the evolution of the optical to X-ray ratio for a large sample of TDEsdiscovered promptly after disruption for the first time. |
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| Instrument | EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2 |
| Temporal Coverage | 2018-04-11T23:42:42Z/2019-04-07T00:44:38Z |
| Version | 21.51_20241115_1113 |
| Mission Description | The European Space Agencys (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999. XMM-Newton is ESAs second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations. Since Earths atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself. Observing time on XMM-Newton is being made available to the scientific community, applying for observational periods on a competitive basis. |
| Creator Contact | https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk |
| Date Published | 2020-05-03T22:00:00Z |
| Last Update | 2026-07-09 |
| Keywords | "accretion timescales", "exciting progress", "larger scale structure", "XMM-Newton", "soft xray emission", "gaining ground", "single survey", "bound stellar debris", "stream stream collisions", "XMM", "xmm newton program", "physical models", "optical emission", "tidal disruption events", "optical component originates", "xray ratio" |
| Publisher And Registrant | European Space Agency |
| Credit Guidelines | European Space Agency, Prof Suvi Gezari, 2020, 'Probing the Accretion Timescales in Tidal Disruption Events with ZTF and XMM', 21.51_20241115_1113, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-kv08zf7 |
| Rights | Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license. |