Roche accretion of stars close to massive black holes

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OPTICAL DISCOVERY OF PROBABLE STELLAR TIDAL DISRUPTION FLARES

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Birth of a relativistic outflow in the unusual γ-ray transient Swift J164449.3+573451

(2011) B. A. Zauderer et al.   NATURE

A Possible Relativistic Jetted Outburst from a Massive Black Hole Fed by a Tidally Disrupted Star

(2011) J. S. Bloom et al.   SCIENCE

Quasi-periodic flares from star-accretion-disc collisions

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INFERRING THE INCLINATION OF A BLACK HOLE ACCRETION DISK FROM OBSERVATIONS OF ITS POLARIZED CONTINUUM RADIATION

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A periodicity of ∼1 hour in X-ray emission from the active galaxy RE J1034+396

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