Skip to content
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole
Nature Astronomy, Volume 7, No. 1, Year 2023
Notification
URL copied to clipboard!
Description
A black hole can launch a powerful relativistic jet after it tidally disrupts a star. If this jet fortuitously aligns with our line of sight, the overall brightness is Doppler boosted by several orders of magnitude. Consequently, such on-axis relativistic tidal disruption events have the potential to unveil cosmological (redshift z > 1) quiescent black holes and are ideal test beds for understanding the radiative mechanisms operating in super-Eddington jets. Here we present multiwavelength (X-ray, UV, optical and radio) observations of the optically discovered transient AT 2022cmc at z = 1.193. Its unusual X-ray properties, including a peak observed luminosity of ≳1048 erg s−1, systematic variability on timescales as short as 1,000 s and overall duration lasting more than 30 days in the rest frame, are traits associated with relativistic tidal disruption events. The X-ray to radio spectral energy distributions spanning 5–50 days after discovery can be explained as synchrotron emission from a relativistic jet (radio), synchrotron self-Compton (X-rays) and thermal emission similar to that seen in low-redshift tidal disruption events (UV/optical). Our modelling implies a beamed, highly relativistic jet akin to blazars but requires extreme matter domination (that is, a high ratio of electron-to-magnetic-field energy densities in the jet) and challenges our theoretical understanding of jets. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
Authors & Co-Authors
Pasham, Dheeraj R.
United States, Cambridge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lucchini, Matteo
United States, Cambridge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laskar, Tanmoy
Netherlands, Nijmegen
Radboud Universiteit
Gompertz, B. P.
United Kingdom, Birmingham
University of Birmingham
Nicholl, Matt
United Kingdom, Birmingham
University of Birmingham
Smartt, Stephen J.
United Kingdom, Belfast
Queen's University Belfast
Miller-Jones, James C.A.
Australia, Perth
Curtin University
Alexander, Kate D.
United States, Evanston
Northwestern University
Fender, Robert P.
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
Smith, Graham P.
United Kingdom, Birmingham
University of Birmingham
Dewangan, Gulab Chand
India, Pune
Inter-university Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
Gendreau, Keith C.
United States, Greenbelt
Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Coughlin, Eric R.
United States, Syracuse
Syracuse University
Rhodes, Lauren
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
Horesh, Assaf
Israel, Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
van Velzen, Sjoert
Netherlands, Leiden
Universiteit Leiden
Sfaradi, Itai
Israel, Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Castro-Segura, Noel C.
United Kingdom, Southampton
University of Southampton
Anderson, Joseph P.
Chile, Santiago
European Southern Observatory Santiago
Arcavi, Iair
Israel, Tel Aviv-yafo
Tel Aviv University
Canada, Toronto
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Brennan, Seán J.
Ireland, Dublin
University College Dublin
Chambers, Kenneth C.
United States, Honolulu
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Chen, Tingwan
Sweden, Stockholm
Stockholms Universitet
Clocchiatti, Alejandro
Chile, Santiago
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Chile, Santiago
Instituto Milenio de Astrofísica
de Boer, Thomas J.L.
United States, Honolulu
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Dennefeld, Michel
France, Paris
Institut D’astrophysique de Paris
Ferrara, Elizabeth C.
United States, Greenbelt
Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
United States, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park
Galbany, Lluís
Spain, Madrid
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Spain, Barcelona
Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña
Gillanders, James H.
United Kingdom, Belfast
Queen's University Belfast
Goodwin, Adelle J.
Australia, Perth
Curtin University
Gromadzki, Mariusz
Poland, Warsaw
University of Warsaw
Huber, Mark E.C.
United States, Honolulu
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Jonker, Peter G.
Netherlands, Nijmegen
Radboud Universiteit
Netherlands, Utrecht
Sron Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Joshi, Manasvita
United States, Boston
Northeastern University
Kara, Erin A.
United States, Cambridge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Killestein, Thomas L.
United Kingdom, Coventry
University of Warwick
Kocevski, Daniel
United States, Washington, D.c.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Leloudas, Giorgos
Denmark, Lyngby
Technical University of Denmark
Lin, Chiencheng
United States, Honolulu
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Margutti, Raffaella
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Mattila, Seppo
Finland, Turku
Turun Yliopisto
Cyprus, Nicosia
European University Cyprus
Muller-Bravo, Tomas E.
Spain, Madrid
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Spain, Barcelona
Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña
Ngeow, Chow Choong
Taiwan, Taoyuan
National Central University
Oates, Samantha R.
United Kingdom, Birmingham
University of Birmingham
Onori, Francesca
Italy, Rome
Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica, Rome
Pan, Yen Chen
Taiwan, Taoyuan
National Central University
Pérez-Torres, M. A.
Cyprus, Nicosia
European University Cyprus
Spain, Granada
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - Csic
Spain, Zaragoza
Universidad de Zaragoza
Remillard, Ronald A.
United States, Cambridge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ridley, Evan J.
United Kingdom, Birmingham
University of Birmingham
Schulze, Steve
Sweden, Stockholm
Stockholms Universitet
Smith, Kenneth W.
United Kingdom, Belfast
Queen's University Belfast
Steiner, James F.
United States, Cambridge
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Wainscoat, Richard J.
United States, Honolulu
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Wevers, Thomas
Chile, Santiago
European Southern Observatory Santiago
Yang, Sheng
Sweden, Stockholm
Stockholms Universitet
Statistics
Citations: 10
Authors: 55
Affiliations: 41
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1038/s41550-022-01820-x
ISSN:
23973366
Research Areas
Environmental