{"paper":{"title":"Thawing the frozen-in approximation: implications for self-gravity in deeply plunging tidal disruption events","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Brian D. Metzger, Elad Steinberg, Eric R. Coughlin, Nicholas C. Stone","submitted_at":"2019-03-10T01:25:33Z","abstract_excerpt":"The tidal destruction of a star by a massive black hole, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE), is commonly modeled using the \"frozen-in\" approximation. Under this approximation, the star maintains exact hydrostatic balance prior to entering the tidal sphere (radius $r_{\\rm t}$), after which point its internal pressure and self-gravity become instantaneously negligible and the debris undergoes ballistic free fall. We present a suite of hydrodynamical simulations of TDEs with high penetration factors $\\beta \\equiv r_{\\rm t}/r_{\\rm p} = 5-7$, where $r_{\\rm p}$ is the pericenter of the stellar "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1903.03898","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}