• DOI:10.1038/s41550-016-0002
Corpus ID: 73645264

The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole

@article{Leloudas2017TheST,
  title={The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole},
  author={G. Leloudas and M. Fraser and N. Stone and S. V. Velzen and P. Jonker and I. Arcavi and C. Fremling and J. R. Maund and S. Smartt and T. Kruhler and J. Miller-Jones and P. Vreeswijk and A. Gal-yam and P. Mazzali and A. D. Cia and D. Howell and C. Inserra and F. Patat and A. U. Postigo and O. Yaron and C. Ashall and I. Bar and H. Campbell and T. Chen and M. Childress and N. Elias-rosa and J. Harmanen and G. Hosseinzadeh and J. Johansson and T. Kangas and E. Kankare and S. Kim and H. Kuncarayakti and J. Lyman and M. R. Magee and K. Maguire and D. Malesani and S. Mattila and C. McCully and M. Nicholl and S. Prentice and C. Romero-Ca{\~n}izales and S. Schulze and K. Smith and J. Sollerman and M. Sullivan and B. Tucker and S. Valenti and J. Wheeler and D. R. Young},
  journal={Nature Astronomy},
  year={2017},
  volume={1},
  pages={1-8}
}

G. Leloudas, M. Fraser, +47 authors D. R. Young

Published 2017

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When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn apart1. For a star with the mass of the Sun (M ⊙) and a non-spinning black hole with a mass 108 M ⊙ 12,13, a star with the same mass as the Sun could be disrupted outside the event horizon if the black hole were spinning rapidly14. The rapid spin and high black hole mass can explain the high luminosity of this event.