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This is a brief review of the recent progress in understanding the evolution of the accretion disks in tidal disruption events (TDEs). Special attention is paid to (1) thermal-viscous instability that causes the disk to transition from a thick state to a thin one, and back and forth, and (2) interactions between the fallback material and existing disk. Challenges to the current model from late-time X-ray observations are highlighted and possible solutions are discussed.
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I would like to thank Yuhan Yao and Thomas Wevers for sharing their X-ray data files and Bin-Bin Zhang for the invitation to write this review. I also thank Clément Bonnerot for collaboration. WL was supported by the Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Fellowship at Princeton University.
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Lu, W. (2023). Accretion Disk Evolution in Tidal Disruption Events. In: Bambi, C., Santangelo, A. (eds) Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4544-0_127-1
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