Two-component off-axis jet model for radio flares of tidal disruption events
Recently, radio emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) has been observed from months to years after the optical discovery. Some of the TDEs including ASASSN-14ae, ASASSN-15oi, AT 2018hyz, and AT 2019dsg are accompanied by the late-time rebrightening phase characterized by a rapid increase in the radio flux. We show that it can be explained by the off-axis two-component jet model, in which the late-time rebrightening arises from the off-axis view of a decelerating narrower jet with an initial Lorentz factor of $\ensuremath{\sim}10$ and a jet opening angle of $\ensuremath{\sim}0.1\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{rad}$, while the early-time radio emission is attributed to the off-axis view of a wider jet component. We also argue that the rate density of jetted TDEs inferred from these events is consistent with the observations.
Authors
- Mukul Bhattacharya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3219-4324)
- Kohta Murase (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5358-5642)
- B. Theodore Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2478-333X)
- Jose Carpio
- Mainak Mukhopadhyay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2109-5315)
- Yuri Sato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2477-9146)
Institutions
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Aoyama Gakuin University (JP)
- University of Nevada, Reno (US)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Instituto de Física Teórica (ES)
- Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2024-09-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.l061307
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.98
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science