HLX-1 as a Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event around an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

arXiv:2609.38694 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/fittingtransientswithdiscs/FitTeD

Terminology

• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Limit Cycles — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Angular Momentum Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Anti-correlation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• X-ray Telescope — 1× in this paper

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• Compact Accretion Disks in the Aftermath of Tidal Disruption Events: Parameter Inference from Joint X-ray Spectra and UV/Optical Photometry Fitting
• An Intermediate-mass Black Hole Lurking in A Galactic Halo Caught Alive during Outburst
• Are most detected tidal disruption events partial?
• TDE 2025abcr: A Tidal Disruption Event in the Outskirts of a Massive Galaxy

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