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Tidal Disruption Eddington Envelopes around Massive Black Holes

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Optically-thick envelopes may form following the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole. Such envelopes would reprocess hard radiation from accretion close to the black hole into the UV and optical bands producing AGN-luminosity flares with duration ~1 year. We show that due to relativistic effects, the envelopes are convective. If convection is efficient, then the structure of the envelopes is similar to that described in previous work; however, the photospheric radius is shown to be very sensitive to the luminosity at the envelope base, suggesting that either the envelope collapses or the envelope expands to a maximum radius at which point a wind may set in. For an envelope without winds, we find a maximum photospheric radius of ~10^16 cm (i.e. minimum effective temperature ~6,000 K). The evolution of the envelopes is described based on simple energy arguments.

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Little Red Dots as Hidden Neutrino Sources

astro-ph.HE · 2026-01-16 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Little Red Dots can contribute ~30% of the diffuse neutrino background at TeV-sub-PeV energies through photomeson production in black hole envelopes, with modified flavor ratios at higher energies.

Are most detected tidal disruption events partial?

astro-ph.HE · 2026-06-22 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

SPH simulations of zero-energy partial TDEs find fallback ~t^{-9/4}, optical luminosities 10^{42-44} erg/s at 10^4 K and radii 10-100 au, indicating many detected TDEs may be partial rather than full.

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  • Little Red Dots as Hidden Neutrino Sources astro-ph.HE · 2026-01-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 84 · internal anchor

    Little Red Dots can contribute ~30% of the diffuse neutrino background at TeV-sub-PeV energies through photomeson production in black hole envelopes, with modified flavor ratios at higher energies.

  • Are most detected tidal disruption events partial? astro-ph.HE · 2026-06-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 18 · internal anchor

    SPH simulations of zero-energy partial TDEs find fallback ~t^{-9/4}, optical luminosities 10^{42-44} erg/s at 10^4 K and radii 10-100 au, indicating many detected TDEs may be partial rather than full.