Presentation description

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are an inherently dramatic category of astronomical transients where a star is torn apart by a supermassive black hole (SMBH). Studying these events is crucial in gaining a fuller understanding of black hole accretion physics and inactive SMBH populations.

We investigate thirteen epochs of data obtained by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope arrays of the TDE AT2022wtn, which sits in the nucleus of a currently merging galaxy. This project focuses on the reduction (calibration and imaging) of the data, along with modeling of the brightness per observing frequency for each of the epochs. We find that the modeled spectrum is characteristic of synchrotron radiation (produced by electrons rotating in a magnetic field), which could highlight the mechanism behind the observed radio emission.