Studying TDEs in the era of LSSTBricman, Katja (Lastnik avtorskih pravic)
Bricman, Katja (Avtor)
Gomboc, Andreja (Avtor)
The observing strategy with continuous scanning and large sky coverage of the upcoming ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will make it a perfect tool in search of rare transientssuch as Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs). Bright optical flares resulting from tidal disruption of stars by their host supermassive black hole (SMBH) can provide us with important information about the mass of the SMBH involved in the disruption and thus enable the study of quiescent SMBHswhich represent a large majority of SMBHs found in centres of galaxies. These types of transients are extremely rarewith only about few tens of candidates discovered so far. It is expected that the LSST will provide a large sample of new TDE light curves. Here we present simulations of TDE observations using an end-to-end LSST simulation framework. Based on the analysis of simulated light curves we estimate the number of TDEs with good quality light curves the LSST is expected to discover in 10 years of observations. In additionwe investigate whether TDEs observed by the LSST could be used to probe the SMBH mass distribution in the universe.
The participation at this conference is supported by the Action CA16104 Gravitational wavesblack holes and fundamental physics (GWverse)supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).20192021-01-04 05:58:36Delo ni kategorizirano6109COBISS_ID: 45219843NUK URN: URN:SI:UNG:REP:WZRQEDIAsl