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18 April 2024

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TDE Hosts are Green and Centrally Concentrated: Signatures of a Post-Merger System
Erica Hammerstein ; Suvi Gezari ; Sjoert van Velzen ; S. Bradley Cenko ; Nathaniel Roth ; Charlotte Ward ; Sara Frederick ; Tiara Hung ; Matthew Graham ; Ryan J. Foley ; Eric C. Bellm ; Christopher Cannella ; Andrew J. Drake ; Thomas Kupfer ; Russ R. Laher ; Ashish A. Mahabal ; Frank J. Masci ; Reed Riddle ; César Rojas-Bravo ; Roger Smith ;
Date:	21 Oct 2020
Abstract:	We study the properties of the galaxies hosting the first 19 tidal disruption events (TDEs) detected with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) within the context of a carefully constructed, representative host galaxy sample. We find that the ZTF sample of TDE hosts is dominated by compact "green valley" galaxies. After we restrict the comparison sample to galaxies with a similar concentration, as measured by Sersic index, we find this green valley over representation is even larger. That is, concentrated red sequence galaxies are not producing TDEs at elevated levels. We present host galaxy spectra which show that E+A galaxies are overrepresented in the ZTF sample by a factor of $approx$22, which is lower than previous TDE host galaxy studies have found. We find that this overrepresentation can be fully accounted for when taking into account the masses, colors, and Sérsic indices of the ZTF TDE hosts. The combination of both green colors and high Sérsic index of the typical TDE host galaxy could be explained if the TDE rate is temporarily enhanced following a merger that leads to a higher central concentration of stars.
Source:	arXiv, 2010.10738
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