| Proposal ID | 089220 |
| Title | The Last Gasp of the TDE Wind |
| Download Data Associated to the proposal | https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0892200101 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-xpksmwf |
| Principal Investigator, PI | Dr Peter Maksym |
| Abstract | When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole, the rapidaccretion of the stellar debris may drive super-Eddington winds which. After aperiod of accretion rate decay, we expect the winds to shut off, drasticallyreducing the production of broad line emission and changing the evolution of theband-specific light curve across the spectrum. Spectroscopic monitoring of newtidal disruption events (TDEs) in the ultraviolet is the best place to observethis transition due to the persistence of a windless disk continuum. the lack ofstellar contamination, and the wealth of high-ionization diagnostic lines thatprobe the relatively small TDE accretion structure. We propose to observe 5 TDEsover 3 epochs with monitoring UV spectroscopy and complementary X-ray and optical |
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| Instrument | EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2 |
| Temporal Coverage | 2022-08-12T21:59:14Z/2024-12-11T16:34:48Z |
| Version | PPS_NOT_AVAILABLE |
| 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 | 2026-01-14T00:00:00Z |
| Last Update | 2026-07-09 |
| Keywords | XMM-Newton, OM, RGS, EPIC, X-ray, Multi-Mirror, SAS |
| Publisher And Registrant | European Space Agency |
| Credit Guidelines | European Space Agency, Dr Peter Maksym, 2026, 'The Last Gasp of the TDE Wind', PPS_NOT_AVAILABLE, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-xpksmwf |
| Rights | Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license. |