Exploring the regime of validity of global gyrokinetic simulations with spherical tokamak plasmas
Nuclear Fusion IOP Publishing 60:2 (2020) 026005
Interpolation of Turbulent Magnetic Fields and Its Consequences on Cosmic Ray Propagation
The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 889:2 (2020) 123
The spectral evolution of disc dominated tidal disruption events
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 492:4 (2020) 5655-5674
Abstract:
We perform a detailed numerical and analytical study of the properties of observed light curves from relativistic thin discs, focussing on observational bands most appropriate for comparison with tidal disruption events (TDEs). We make use of asymptotic expansion techniques applied to the spectral emission integral, using time-dependent disc temperature profiles appropriate for solutions of the relativistic thin disc equation. Rather than a power law associated with bolometric disc emission L ∼ t−n, the observed X-ray flux from disc-dominated TDEs will typically have the form of a power law multiplied by an exponential (see equation 91). While precise details are somewhat dependent on the nature of the ISCO stress and disc-observer orientational angle, the general form of the time-dependent flux is robust and insensitive to the exact disc temperature profile. We present numerical fits to the UV and X-ray light curves of ASASSN-14li, a particularly well observed TDE. This modelling incorporates strong gravity optics. The full 900 d of ASASSN-14li X-ray observations are very well fit by a simple relativistic disc model, significantly improving upon previous work. The same underlying model also fits the final 1000 d of ASASSN-14li observations in three different UV bandpasses. Finally, we demonstrate that the analytic formulae reproduce the properties of full numerical modelling at both UV and X-ray wavelengths with great fidelity.Linear pedestal ETG
University of Oxford (2020)