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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 722, Issue 2, Pages 1035-1050Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1035
Keywords
galaxies: active; galaxies: clusters: individual (A1689); galaxies: nuclei; X-rays: bursts; X-rays: galaxies
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- NASA ADP [NNX08AJ35G]
- NASA Illinois Space Consortium [2005-3386-02, NNG05GE81H]
- GAANN [P200A060082]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASA [NNX08AJ35G, 100589] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Theory suggests that a star making a close passage by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy can under most circumstances be expected to emit a giant flare of radiation as it is disrupted and a portion of the resulting stream of shock-heated stellar debris falls back onto the black hole itself. We examine the first results of an ongoing archival survey of galaxy clusters using Chandra and XMM-Newton-selected data and report a likely tidal disruption flare from SDSS J131122.15-012345.6 in A1689. The flare is observed to vary by a factor of greater than or similar to 30 over at least two years to have maximum L-X(0.3-3.0 keV) greater than or similar to 5 x 10(42) erg s(-1) and to emit as a blackbody with kT similar to 0.12 keV. From the galaxy population as determined by existing studies of the cluster, we estimate a tidal disruption rate of 1.2 x 10(-4) galaxy(-1) yr(-1) if we assume a contribution to the observable rate from galaxies whose range of luminosities corresponds to a central black hole mass (M-center dot) between 10(6) and 10(8) M-circle dot.
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