Περίληψη :
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) serve as direct probes of the nature and population of supermassive black holes and are nowadays regularly detected in optical and X-ray surveys of the sky. Nevertheless, there’s increasing evidence that these surveys provide a biased view of the underlying population. To address this, we performed a systematic search of the NEOWISE archive for mid-infrared bright TDEs using state-of-the-art image subtraction techniques. In this talk, I will present our ongoing efforts to identify and characterize mid-infrared nuclear transients and I will highlight some recent results of this work, including the discovery of the nearest TDE, the analysis of a population of obscured TDEs uniquely identified in the mid-infrared wavebands, and the detection of other extreme transients. I will further discuss how this new population of mid-infrared TDEs alters our understanding of the general population and provides an opportunity to probe the nuclear environment of typical galaxies. I will conclude with remarks for future work using upcoming missions.
