Welcome to the Open Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) Catalog! This catalog is intended to be a “catch-all” list of possible TDEs that have been claimed over the years in the literature, even for events in which the favored interpretation is not a tidal disruption. The catalog is a continual work in progress, and is likely missing a few events and may have a few mistakes. The list of TDEs available here is scraped from various data repositories and individual publications. If you use this data, please reference the cited sources of that data, and we’d also appreciate if you provided a link to this catalog. Thanks!

The table below is generated from JSON files produced by AstroCats, which agglomerates the data for each TDE as a series of JSON files that all adhere to the same schema. The entirety of the data available for any TDE can be downloaded by clicking the icon in the Data column. Advanced data retrieval options are available via the OACAPI. If you would like to contribute data yourself, please visit our contribute page. If you spot any mistakes, please create a new issue on our GitHub issue tracking page, or contact us via e-mail.

Tips for searching: Individual column searches (the text boxes at the bottom of the table) for numeric columns support basic logical operators. For instance, to search for events with redshifts less than 0.2, enter ‘<0.2’ into the ‘z’ column filter field at the bottom of the table. Syntax supports ‘<‘, ‘>’, ‘<=’, ‘>=’, ranges (e.g. ‘0.2 – 0.4’, except for the date fields), and multiple simultaneous criteria (e.g. “OR”) when individual rules are comma separated (e.g. ‘<0.2, 1.0 – 1.5’). For non-numeric columns, criteria can be comma separated to match multiple criteria (e.g. ‘NGC, UGC’ in the host field would return entries that match one or the other). Surrounding a selection in double quotes will enforce an exact match (e.g. “ia” will match ‘ia’ and not ‘ia-pec’).