Fig. 4: Comparison of OGLE16aaa with other TDEs in the evolution of optical to X-ray luminosity ratio. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Comparison of OGLE16aaa with other TDEs in the evolution of optical to X-ray luminosity ratio.

From: X-ray flares from the stellar tidal disruption by a candidate supermassive black hole binary

Fig. 4

The optical luminosity refers to the integrated blackbody luminosity from the SED fittings to the Swift UVOT photometry. For epochs where only UV observation at one band is available (t = [300, 490] days), we extrapolated the UV luminosity to the blackbody luminosity by assuming a constant temperature evolution since t = 150 days. For the X-ray non-detections, the corresponding 3σ upper limits are given. Red symbols represent the luminosity ratios of OGLE16aaa at different epochs. For comparison, we also plotted the ratios for other X-ray bright TDEs from5,6,39, as noted in the legend. ASASSN-14li17 is the only TDE that shows nearly constant optical to X-ray luminosity ratios since discovery. Although OGLE16aaa appears to follow the evolution trend as other TDEs, the time of rise to peak is distinct.

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