Left: Swift/XRT (black) and UVOT/UVW1 (green) lightcurves of TDE AT 2018fyk. The vertical colored lines denote transitions as traced by the alpha_ox parameter, shown in the right panel as a function of the bolometric Eddington fraction. Alpha_ox is equivalent to hardness for stellar-mass blackholes. We divide the evolution into 5 phases depending on the lightcurve and X-ray spectral behaviour. A typical error bar is shown in the top left corner of the right panel. The uncertainty in bolometric Eddington fraction is dominated by the intrinsic scatter in the M-sigma relation. Green stars in the right panel show the latest re-brightening.

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