Title: Bound debris in stellar tidal disruption events Abstract: Highly energetic stellar tidal disruptions (TDEs) provide a way to study supermassive black hole characteristics and their environment. After a tidal disruption event matter can be bound or unbound, depending on its total energy. A key issue in understanding TDEs, disk formation and their light curves, is the amount of matter, which either falls in the black hole, forms a disk or escapes in the interstellar space. We investigate, how a ratio between mass of bound and total mass of the debris evolves with time, taking stars on orbits with different eccentricities and penetration factors. Our analysis is based on results derived from hydrodynamical simulations with the PHANTOM code in generalized Newtonian potential. We also calculate total energy, angular momentum and energy spread in order to ascertain their connection to the amount of bound debris. We confirm, that the extent of bound matter is related to the energy/angular momentum before disruption and to the increase in energy/angular momentum induced by tidal forces during the first encounter. In the case of hyperbolic and parabolic orbits we conclude, that the amount of bound debris is decreasing with the penetration factor.