Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Searching for ultra-light bosons and constraining black hole spin distributions with stellar tidal disruption events

  • Peizhi Du,
  • Daniel Egaña-Ugrinovic,
  • Rouven Essig,
  • Giacomo Fragione,
  • Rosalba Perna

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32301-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close enough to supermassive black holes. Here, the authors show that future searches TDEs have potential to uncover the existence of ultralight bosons.