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Tidal disruption event demographics

Tidal disruption event demographics

We survey the properties of stars destroyed in tidal disruption events (TDEs) as a function of black hole (BH) mass, stellar mass and evolutionary state, star formation history and redshift. For |$M_{{\rm BH}}\, {\mathrel {{<}{{\sim }}}}\,10^7\ {\rm M}_{\odot }$|⁠, the typical TDE is due to a M* ∼ 0.3 M⊙ …