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Early emission characterization of TDE 2025aarm

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In this Letter, we present early emission data analysis of the tidal disruption event TDE 2025aarm, including optical, UV and X-ray data. At a redshift of z = 0.01368, TDE 2025aarm is the second closest TDE ever discovered, offering an unprecedented opportunity to study such phenomena in great details. We observed TDE 2025aarm in optical with the Liverpool Telescope for a total of three epochs, and complemented our dataset with ancillary spectroscopic and photometric data. The early optical spectra are characterized by a blue-continuum and helium, hydrogen and possibly Bowen lines typical of H+He events. The optical light curves peak at M_g ~ -18.68 mag and are well described by fallback of a M_star ~ 0.16 M_sun star onto a M_BH ~ 2x10^{7}M_sun black hole. We report Swift-XRT detection in the 0.3-10 keV range, with a total flux of F_X ~ 1.42x10^{-14} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1}, fitted by a black-body with k_BT ~ 0.39 keV. This makes TDE~2025aarm a new event among optical/UV bright TDEs detected in soft X-rays. Our analysis suggests that the early emission from TDE 2025aarm is powered by circularization shocks, and that the delayed accretion scenario best describes the observed features.

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On the Faint Early-time Radio and X-ray Emissions in TDE2025aarm

astro-ph.HE · 2026-05-29 · conditional · novelty 4.0

Faint radio emission in TDE2025aarm implies a collimated outflow from unbound debris with solid angle ≲0.1 sr, while X-rays can arise from the same shock via synchrotron or inverse-Compton scattering.

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  • On the Faint Early-time Radio and X-ray Emissions in TDE2025aarm astro-ph.HE · 2026-05-29 · conditional · none · ref 29 · internal anchor

    Faint radio emission in TDE2025aarm implies a collimated outflow from unbound debris with solid angle ≲0.1 sr, while X-rays can arise from the same shock via synchrotron or inverse-Compton scattering.