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A radio jet from the optical and x-ray bright stellar tidal disruption flare ASASSN-14li

Published:2016-01 Issue:6268 Volume:351 Page:62-65
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

van Velzen S.¹,Anderson G. E.²³,Stone N. C.⁴,Fraser M.⁵,Wevers T.⁶,Metzger B. D.⁴,Jonker P. G.⁶⁷,van der Horst A. J.⁸,Staley T. D.²,Mendez A. J.¹,Miller-Jones J. C. A.³,Hodgkin S. T.⁵,Campbell H. C.⁵,Fender R. P.²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

2. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK.

3. International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia.

4. Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.

5. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK.

6. Department of Astrophysics, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands.

7. SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, Netherlands.

8. Department of Physics, The George Washington University, 725 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

Abstract

Transient radio jet from a black hole When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets ripped apart by the gravitational forces. This causes a tidal disruption flare as the material falls into the black hole. van Velzen et al. monitored one such flare with radio telescopes and found evidence for a transient relativistic jet launched by the black hole (see the Perspective by Bower). Larger jets are a feature of active galactic nuclei and have a profound effect on their host galaxy, but are poorly understood. The results will aid our understanding of how black holes “feed” and of the processes governing jet formation. Science , this issue p. 62 ; see also p. 30

Funder

Netherlands foundation for Scientific Research

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)

European Union FP7

European Research Council

NASA

NSF

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Australian Research Council

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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