ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Unleashing the predictive power of tidal disruption events
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been known for decades as unique probes of otherwise quiescent supermassive black holes and their environment, in a mass range inaccessible by any other techniques. However, fulfilling this potential has so far been hindered by a crucial lack of understanding of the physics causing the emission. My program will solve this theoretical bottleneck and unleash the predictive power of TDEs at the dawn of an observational golden era provided by the Rubin Observatory. A TDE occurs when a star is disrupted by a black hole, after which the stellar debris fuels the compact object, generating the detectable signal. While characterizing this emission has been…
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