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Proper-motion age dating of the progeny of Nova Scorpii AD 1437.

Nature

August 2017

Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA.

'Cataclysmic variables' are binary star systems in which one star of the pair is a white dwarf, and which often generate bright and energetic stellar outbursts. Classical novae are one type of outburst: when the white dwarf accretes enough matter from its companion, the resulting hydrogen-rich atmospheric envelope can host a runaway thermonuclear reaction that generates a rapid brightening. Achieving peak luminosities of up to one million times that of the Sun, all classical novae are recurrent, on timescales of months to millennia.

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The γ-ray afterglows of tidal disruption events.

Mon Not R Astron Soc

May 2016

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, The Institute for Theory and Computation, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

A star wandering too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) will be tidally disrupted. Previous studies of such 'tidal disruption event' (TDE) mostly focus on the stellar debris that are bound to the system, because they give rise to luminous flares. On the other hand, half of the stellar debris in principle are unbound and can stream to a great distance, but so far there is no clear evidence that this 'unbound debris stream' (UDS) exists.

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Flows of X-ray gas reveal the disruption of a star by a massive black hole.

Nature

October 2015

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.

Tidal forces close to massive black holes can violently disrupt stars that make a close approach. These extreme events are discovered via bright X-ray and optical/ultraviolet flares in galactic centres. Prior studies based on modelling decaying flux trends have been able to estimate broad properties, such as the mass accretion rate.

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