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We simulate the rise, peak, and initial decay o...

We simulate the rise, peak, and initial decay of a TDE using MCRT + 1D hydrodynamics. To...

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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The blue, green, and orange lines show the outp...

The blue, green, and orange lines show the output SED using three different opacity pres...

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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This cartoon depicts the main components of a w...

This cartoon depicts the main components of a wind-reprocessed TDE. In our simulation, w...

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Top: fraction of oxygen in different ionization...

Top: fraction of oxygen in different ionization states as a function of radius at two re...

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Top: we find that adiabatic losses result in a ...

Top: we find that adiabatic losses result in a peak luminosity that is ∼6× lower than t...

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Relevant hydro quantities as a function of time...

Relevant hydro quantities as a function of time and radius from the fiducial simulation ...

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Here, we compare the SED evolution for simulati...

Here, we compare the SED evolution for simulations with three different values of the li...

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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We compare 3 epochs of our simulation with Sedo...

We compare 3 epochs of our simulation with Sedona non-LTE postprocessing results from L....

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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The advected pulse problem solved analytically ...

The advected pulse problem solved analytically in the diffusion approximation (solid lin...

Brenna Mockler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Estimated ACF (normalized) ...

Estimated ACF (normalized) ﹩{\hat{R}}_{b}(\ell )={\hat{C}}_{b}(\ell )/{\hat{C}}_{b}(0)﹩ ...

Jean C. Perez et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Left panels: comparison of biased vs. unbiased ...

Left panels: comparison of biased vs. unbiased ACF estimates for T = 6 hr (top) and T = ...

Jean C. Perez et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Top left: the estimated PSD at zero frequency f...

Top left: the estimated PSD at zero frequency for each of the four ACF estimates, and th...

Jean C. Perez et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Top: normalized local-mean-variance (left axis)...

Top: normalized local-mean-variance (left axis), ...

Jean C. Perez et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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﹩{C}_{h,N}^{(+)}(\ell )﹩ (forward) and ...

﹩{C}_{h,N}^{(+)}(\ell )﹩ (forward) and ﹩{C}_{h,N}^{(-)}(\ell )﹩ (backward) ACF estimati...

Jean C. Perez et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Observations of TOI-1710 A. (a) NEID RVs, after...

Observations of TOI-1710 A. (a) NEID RVs, after subtracting a long-term linear trend (pu...

Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Results of the ensemble of secular simulations....

Results of the ensemble of secular simulations. The semimajor axis of the intermediate c...

Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Secular evolution of the obliquities of TOI-171...

Secular evolution of the obliquities of TOI-1710 from four-body secular integrations. Th...

Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Mass–semimajor axis diagram for the hypothetica...

Mass–semimajor axis diagram for the hypothetical intermediate companion. The points are ...

Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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The half-mass radius rh• (blue), core radius rc...

The half-mass radius rh• (blue), core radius rc• (red), average mass ...

Yining Sun and Long Wang, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Density profiles as a function of radius for M5...

Density profiles as a function of radius for M50k-IMF-BH and M50k-IMF-ALL under differen...

Yining Sun and Long Wang, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Semimajor axis (a) of BBHs as a function of tim...

Semimajor axis (a) of BBHs as a function of time t for the M50k-IMF-All-r0.01 model. The...

Yining Sun and Long Wang, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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Relation between postmerger BH mass (mf•) and c...

Relation between postmerger BH mass (mf•) and component mass ratio (q) of premerger BBHs...

Yining Sun and Long Wang, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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The relationships between postmerger BH mass mf...

The relationships between postmerger BH mass mf• and GW kick velocity vk (left), and spi...

Yining Sun and Long Wang, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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The maximum BH mass (...

The maximum BH mass (﹩{m}_{\bullet ,{\rm{\max }}}﹩) as a function of time (t). Model ini...

Yining Sun and Long Wang, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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The relationship between the semimajor axis a a...

The relationship between the semimajor axis a and evolution timescales for BBH mergers i...

Yining Sun and Long Wang, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 1

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