Lin, Zheyu; Jiang, Ning; Wang, Tinggui; Kong, Xu; Li, Dongyue; He, Han; Wang, Yibo; Zhu, Jiazheng; Li, Wentao; Jiang, Ji-an; Singh, Avinash; Teja, Rishabh Singh; Sahu, D. K; Jin, Chichuan; Maeda, Keiichi; Huang, Shifeng
(American Astronomical Society, 2024-08-10)
The unluckiest star orbits a supermassive black hole elliptically. Every time it reaches the pericenter, it shallowly enters the tidal radius and gets partially tidally disrupted, producing a series of flares. Confirmation ...