A Massive Black Hole 0.8 kpc from the Host Nucleus Revealed by the Offset Tidal Disruption Event AT2024tvd
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| author | Yao, Yuhan Chornock, Ryan Ward, Charlotte Hammerstein, Erica Sfaradi, Itai Margutti, Raffaella Kelley, Luke Zoltan Lu, Wenbin Liu, Chang Wise, Jacob Sollerman, Jesper Alexander, Kate D. Bellm, Eric C. Drake, Andrew J. Fremling, Christoffer Gilfanov, Marat Graham, Matthew J. Groom, Steven L. Hinds, K. R. Kulkarni, S. R. Miller, Adam A. Miller-Jones, James C. A. Nicholl, Matt Perley, Daniel A. Purdum, Josiah Ravi, Vikram Rich, R. Michael Rehemtulla, Nabeel Riddle, Reed Smith, Roger Stein, Robert Sunyaev, Rashid van Velzen, Sjoert Wold, Avery |
| author_facet | Yao, Yuhan Chornock, Ryan Ward, Charlotte Hammerstein, Erica Sfaradi, Itai Margutti, Raffaella Kelley, Luke Zoltan Lu, Wenbin Liu, Chang Wise, Jacob Sollerman, Jesper Alexander, Kate D. Bellm, Eric C. Drake, Andrew J. Fremling, Christoffer Gilfanov, Marat Graham, Matthew J. Groom, Steven L. Hinds, K. R. Kulkarni, S. R. Miller, Adam A. Miller-Jones, James C. A. Nicholl, Matt Perley, Daniel A. Purdum, Josiah Ravi, Vikram Rich, R. Michael Rehemtulla, Nabeel Riddle, Reed Smith, Roger Stein, Robert Sunyaev, Rashid van Velzen, Sjoert Wold, Avery |
| contents | Tidal disruption events (TDEs) that are spatially offset from the nuclei of their host galaxies offer a new probe of massive black hole (MBH) wanderers, binaries, triples, and recoiling MBHs. Here we present AT2024tvd, the first off-nuclear TDE identified through optical sky surveys. High-resolution imaging with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} shows that AT2024tvd is $0.914\pm 0.010^{\prime\prime}$ offset from the apparent center of its host galaxy, corresponding to a projected distance of $0.808\pm 0.009$ kpc at $z=0.045$. Chandra and VLA observations support the same conclusion for the TDE's X-ray and radio emission. AT2024tvd exhibits typical properties of nuclear TDEs, including a persistent hot UV/optical component that peaks at $L_{\rm bb}\sim 6\times 10^{43}\,{\rm erg\,s^{-1}}$, broad hydrogen lines in its optical spectra, and delayed brightening of luminous ($L_{\rm X,peak}\sim 3\times 10^{43}\,{\rm erg\,s^{-1}}$), highly variable soft X-ray emission. The MBH mass of AT2024tvd is $10^{6\pm1}\,M_\odot$, at least 10 times lower than its host galaxy's central black hole mass ($\gtrsim 10^8\,M_\odot$). The MBH in AT2024tvd has two possible origins: a wandering MBH from the lower-mass galaxy in a minor merger during the dynamical friction phase or a recoiling MBH ejected by triple interactions. Combining AT2024tvd with two previously known off-nuclear TDEs discovered in X-rays (3XMM J2150 and EP240222a), which likely involve intermediate-mass black holes in satellite galaxies, we find that the parent galaxies of all three events are very massive ($\sim 10^{10.9}\,M_\odot$). This result aligns with expectations from cosmological simulations that the number of offset MBHs scales linearly with the host halo mass. |
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| spellingShingle | A Massive Black Hole 0.8 kpc from the Host Nucleus Revealed by the Offset Tidal Disruption Event AT2024tvd Yao, Yuhan Chornock, Ryan Ward, Charlotte Hammerstein, Erica Sfaradi, Itai Margutti, Raffaella Kelley, Luke Zoltan Lu, Wenbin Liu, Chang Wise, Jacob Sollerman, Jesper Alexander, Kate D. Bellm, Eric C. Drake, Andrew J. Fremling, Christoffer Gilfanov, Marat Graham, Matthew J. Groom, Steven L. Hinds, K. R. Kulkarni, S. R. Miller, Adam A. Miller-Jones, James C. A. Nicholl, Matt Perley, Daniel A. Purdum, Josiah Ravi, Vikram Rich, R. Michael Rehemtulla, Nabeel Riddle, Reed Smith, Roger Stein, Robert Sunyaev, Rashid van Velzen, Sjoert Wold, Avery Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Tidal disruption events (TDEs) that are spatially offset from the nuclei of their host galaxies offer a new probe of massive black hole (MBH) wanderers, binaries, triples, and recoiling MBHs. Here we present AT2024tvd, the first off-nuclear TDE identified through optical sky surveys. High-resolution imaging with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} shows that AT2024tvd is $0.914\pm 0.010^{\prime\prime}$ offset from the apparent center of its host galaxy, corresponding to a projected distance of $0.808\pm 0.009$ kpc at $z=0.045$. Chandra and VLA observations support the same conclusion for the TDE's X-ray and radio emission. AT2024tvd exhibits typical properties of nuclear TDEs, including a persistent hot UV/optical component that peaks at $L_{\rm bb}\sim 6\times 10^{43}\,{\rm erg\,s^{-1}}$, broad hydrogen lines in its optical spectra, and delayed brightening of luminous ($L_{\rm X,peak}\sim 3\times 10^{43}\,{\rm erg\,s^{-1}}$), highly variable soft X-ray emission. The MBH mass of AT2024tvd is $10^{6\pm1}\,M_\odot$, at least 10 times lower than its host galaxy's central black hole mass ($\gtrsim 10^8\,M_\odot$). The MBH in AT2024tvd has two possible origins: a wandering MBH from the lower-mass galaxy in a minor merger during the dynamical friction phase or a recoiling MBH ejected by triple interactions. Combining AT2024tvd with two previously known off-nuclear TDEs discovered in X-rays (3XMM J2150 and EP240222a), which likely involve intermediate-mass black holes in satellite galaxies, we find that the parent galaxies of all three events are very massive ($\sim 10^{10.9}\,M_\odot$). This result aligns with expectations from cosmological simulations that the number of offset MBHs scales linearly with the host halo mass. |
| title | A Massive Black Hole 0.8 kpc from the Host Nucleus Revealed by the Offset Tidal Disruption Event AT2024tvd |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17661 |