The field of SMBH-related transients is rapidly evolving, with many new and interesting nuclear transients and related phenomena discovered in the past few years alone. These include the increasing number of nearby and well-studied tidal disruption events (TDEs), events that brighten late in X-ray or radio light, the first spectropolarimetric observations of a TDE, first indications of TDEs as multi-messenger events, new types of peculiar events, evidence of a TDE-galaxy connection through the overabundance of TDEs in recently quenched hosts, and more. In parallel, progress in modeling these complex events has been made.

The aim of this Special Session is to bring together researchers with various expertise relating to these phenomena and their host environments, including X-ray, UV, optical, radio, and neutrino observers, as well as theoreticians who model and simulate these events.

EAS 2023 is an excellent opportunity to explore these synergies to better understand the nature of these events and guide multi-messenger and multi-wavelength observations into the LSST era. (image credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab)

Programme

• Observational progress in past few years, new events
• Development of theoretical models in past few years
• Host galaxies of nuclear transients
• AGN-TDE connection and other peculiar events

Invited speakers

• Sjoert van Velzen (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
• Decker French(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Jessie C. Runnoe (Vanderbilt University,USA)
• Andrew Mummery(University of Oxford, UK)

Scientific organisers

Mariusz Gromadzki (University of Warsaw, Poland) chair
Iair Arcavi (University of Tel Aviv, Israel) co-chair
Giorgios Leloudas (DTU Space, Denmark)
Jane Lixin Dai (University of Hong Kong,China)
Peter Jonker (Radboud University & SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research)
Matt Nicholl (University of Birmingham, UK)
Ann Zabludoff (University of Arizona, USA)

Contact

marg @ astrouw.edu.pl