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author Wang, Yanan
Lin, Zikun
Wu, Linhui
Lei, Weihua
Wei, Shuyuan
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Ji, Long
del Palacio, Santiago
Baldi, Ranieri D.
Huang, Yang
Liu, Jifeng
Zhang, Bing
Yang, Aiyuan
Chen, Rurong
Zhang, Yangwei
Wang, Ailing
Yang, Lei
Charalampopoulos, Panos
Williams-Baldwin, David R. A.
Yao, Zhu-Heng
Xie, Fu-Guo
Bu, Defu
Feng, Hua
Cao, Xinwu
Wu, Hongzhou
Li, Wenxiong
Qiao, Erlin
Leloudas, Giorgos
Anderson, Joseph P
Shu, Xinwen
Pasham, Dheeraj R.
Zou, Hu
Nicholl, Matt
Wevers, Thomas
Muller-Bravo, Tomas E.
Wang, Jing
Wei, Jianyan
Qiu, Yu-Lei
Guo, Weijian
Gutierrez, Claudia P.
Gromadzki, Mariusz
Inserra, Cosimo
Makrygianni, Lydia
Onori, Francesca
Petrushevska, Tanja
Altamirano, Diego
Galbany, Lluis
Perez-Torres, Miguel
Chen, Ting-Wan
author_facet Wang, Yanan
Lin, Zikun
Wu, Linhui
Lei, Weihua
Wei, Shuyuan
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Ji, Long
del Palacio, Santiago
Baldi, Ranieri D.
Huang, Yang
Liu, Jifeng
Zhang, Bing
Yang, Aiyuan
Chen, Rurong
Zhang, Yangwei
Wang, Ailing
Yang, Lei
Charalampopoulos, Panos
Williams-Baldwin, David R. A.
Yao, Zhu-Heng
Xie, Fu-Guo
Bu, Defu
Feng, Hua
Cao, Xinwu
Wu, Hongzhou
Li, Wenxiong
Qiao, Erlin
Leloudas, Giorgos
Anderson, Joseph P
Shu, Xinwen
Pasham, Dheeraj R.
Zou, Hu
Nicholl, Matt
Wevers, Thomas
Muller-Bravo, Tomas E.
Wang, Jing
Wei, Jianyan
Qiu, Yu-Lei
Guo, Weijian
Gutierrez, Claudia P.
Gromadzki, Mariusz
Inserra, Cosimo
Makrygianni, Lydia
Onori, Francesca
Petrushevska, Tanja
Altamirano, Diego
Galbany, Lluis
Perez-Torres, Miguel
Chen, Ting-Wan
contents Theories and simulations predict that intense spacetime curvature near black holes bends the trajectories of light and matter, driving disk and jet precession under relativistic torques. However, direct observational evidence of disk-jet co-precession remains elusive. Here, we report the most compelling case to date: a tidal disruption event (TDE) exhibiting unprecedented 19.6-day quasi-periodic variations in both X-rays and radio, with X-ray amplitudes exceeding an order of magnitude. The nearly synchronized X-ray and radio variations suggest a shared mechanism regulating the emission regions. We demonstrate that a disk-jet Lense-Thirring precession model successfully reproduces these variations while requiring a low-spin black hole. This study uncovers previously uncharted short-term radio variability in TDEs, highlights the transformative potential of high-cadence radio monitoring, and offers profound insights into disk-jet physics.
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spellingShingle Detection of disk-jet co-precession in a tidal disruption event
Wang, Yanan
Lin, Zikun
Wu, Linhui
Lei, Weihua
Wei, Shuyuan
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Ji, Long
del Palacio, Santiago
Baldi, Ranieri D.
Huang, Yang
Liu, Jifeng
Zhang, Bing
Yang, Aiyuan
Chen, Rurong
Zhang, Yangwei
Wang, Ailing
Yang, Lei
Charalampopoulos, Panos
Williams-Baldwin, David R. A.
Yao, Zhu-Heng
Xie, Fu-Guo
Bu, Defu
Feng, Hua
Cao, Xinwu
Wu, Hongzhou
Li, Wenxiong
Qiao, Erlin
Leloudas, Giorgos
Anderson, Joseph P
Shu, Xinwen
Pasham, Dheeraj R.
Zou, Hu
Nicholl, Matt
Wevers, Thomas
Muller-Bravo, Tomas E.
Wang, Jing
Wei, Jianyan
Qiu, Yu-Lei
Guo, Weijian
Gutierrez, Claudia P.
Gromadzki, Mariusz
Inserra, Cosimo
Makrygianni, Lydia
Onori, Francesca
Petrushevska, Tanja
Altamirano, Diego
Galbany, Lluis
Perez-Torres, Miguel
Chen, Ting-Wan
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Theories and simulations predict that intense spacetime curvature near black holes bends the trajectories of light and matter, driving disk and jet precession under relativistic torques. However, direct observational evidence of disk-jet co-precession remains elusive. Here, we report the most compelling case to date: a tidal disruption event (TDE) exhibiting unprecedented 19.6-day quasi-periodic variations in both X-rays and radio, with X-ray amplitudes exceeding an order of magnitude. The nearly synchronized X-ray and radio variations suggest a shared mechanism regulating the emission regions. We demonstrate that a disk-jet Lense-Thirring precession model successfully reproduces these variations while requiring a low-spin black hole. This study uncovers previously uncharted short-term radio variability in TDEs, highlights the transformative potential of high-cadence radio monitoring, and offers profound insights into disk-jet physics.
title Detection of disk-jet co-precession in a tidal disruption event
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12477