Kavli Affiliate: Dheeraj Pasham | First 5 Authors: Dheeraj Pasham, Eric Coughlin, Muryel Guolo, Thomas Wevers, Chris Nixon | Summary: The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018dyk/ASASSN-18UL showed a rapid dimming event 500 days after discovery, followed by a re-brightening roughly 700 days later. It has been hypothesized that this behavior results from a repeating partial […]
Continue.. A Potential Second Shutoff from AT2018fyk: An updated Orbital Ephemeris of the Surviving Star under the Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event Paradigm