Precessing warped discs in close binary systems
Abstract
We describe some recent nonlinear three dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of accretion discs in binary systems where the orbit is circular and not necessarily coplanar with the disc midplane. The calculations are relevant to a number of observed astrophysical phenomena, including the precession of jets associated with young stars, the high spectral index of some T Tauri stars, and the light curves of X-ray binaries such as Hercules X-1 which suggest the presence of precessing accretion discs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9701106,
title = {Precessing warped discs in close binary systems},
author = {J. C. B. Papaloizou and J. D. Larwood and R. P. Nelson and C. Terquem},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9701106},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages (LaTeX, lamuphys.sty), 6 figures available from [email protected]. Full PostScript available from http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~jdl/preprint.html . To appear in the Proceedings of the EARA Workshop on Accretion Disks (Garching, Oct. 1996), Lecture Notes in Physics