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- Title
Hard X-ray luminosity function of tidal disruption events: First results from the MAXI extragalactic survey.
- Authors
Taiki Kawamuro; Yoshihiro Ueda; Megumi Shidatsu; Takafumi Hori; Nobuyuki Kawai; Hitoshi Negoro; Tatehiro Mihara
- Abstract
We derive the first hard X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), which gives an occurrence rate of TDEs per unit volume as a function of peak luminosity and redshift, utilizing an unbiased sample observed by the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI). On the basis of the light curves characterized by a power-law decay with an index of -5/3, a systematic search using the MAXI data detected four TDEs in the first 37 months of observations, all of which have been found in the literature. To formulate the TDE XLF, we consider the mass function of SMBHs, that of disrupted stars, the specific TDE rate as a function of SMBH mass, and the fraction of TDEs with relativistic jets. We perform an unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the MAXI TDE list and check the consistency with the observed TDE rate in the ROSAT all-sky survey. The results suggest that the intrinsic fraction of the jet-accompanying events is 0.0007%-34%. We confirm that at z ≲ 1.5 the contamination of the hard X-ray luminosity functions of active galactic nuclei by TDEs is not significant and hence that their contribution to the growth of SMBHs is negligible at the redshifts.
- Subjects
LUMINOSITY; EXTRAGALACTIC distances; SUPERMASSIVE black holes; LIGHT curves; RELATIVISTIC astrophysics
- Publication
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2016, Vol 68, Issue 4, p58-1
- ISSN
0004-6264
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pasj/psw056