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Be stars are rapidly rotating, with angular frequency around $0.7-0.8$ of their Keplerian break up frequency, as a result of significant accretion during the earlier stellar evolution of a companion star. Material from the equator of the Be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow , David Vallet , Madeline Overton , Stephen Lepp , Zhaohuan Zhu

The evolution of a stellar disk under the influence of viscous evolution, photoevaporation from the central source, and photoevaporation by external stars is studied. We take the typical parameters of TTSs and the Trapezium Cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Isamu Matsuyama , Doug Johnstone , Lee Hartmann

We report on the results of the first 3D SPH simulation of massive, gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disks with radiative transfer. We adopt a flux-limited diffusion scheme justified by the high opacity of most of the disk. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lucio Mayer , Graeme Lufkin , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley

We present a numerical simulation of the formation of a massive star using Monte- Carlo-based radiation hydrodynamics (RHD). The star forms via stochastic disc accretion and produces fast, radiation-driven bipolar cavities. We find that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Tim J Harries , Tom A Douglas , Ahmad Ali

We present a one-dimensional model of the formation and viscous evolution of protoplanetary disks. The formation of the early disk is modeled as the result of the gravitational collapse of an isothermal molecular cloud. The disk's viscous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ricardo Hueso , Tristan Guillot

We study the viscous effects on the interaction between the coplanar Be-star disc and the neutron star in Be/X-ray binaries, using a three-dimensional, smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. For simplicity, we assume the Be disc to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. T. Okazaki , M. R. Bate , G. I. Ogilvie , J. E. Pringle

As planets form they tidally interact with their natal disks. Though the tidal perturbation induced by Earth and super-Earth mass planets is generally too weak to significantly modify the structure of the disk, the interaction is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Katherine A. Kretke , D. N. C. Lin

Context. The structure of the inner parts of Be star disks (20 stellar radii) is well explained by the viscous decretion disk (VDD) model, which is able to reproduce the observable properties of most of the objects studied so far. The outer…

Turbulent viscosity in cold accretion disks is likely to be hydrodynamic in origin. We investigate the growth of hydrodynamic perturbations in a small region of a disk, which we model as a linear shear flow with Coriolis force, between two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Niayesh Afshordi , Ramesh Narayan

The temperature in most parts of a protoplanetary disk is determined by irradiation from the central star. Numerical experiments of Watanabe \& Lin (2008) suggested that such disks, also called `passive disks', suffer from a thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Yanqin Wu , Yoram Lithwick

The formation of circumplanetary disks is central to our understanding of giant planet formation, influencing their growth rate during the post-runaway phase and observability while embedded in protoplanetary disks. We use 3D global…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 Leonardo Krapp , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Andrew N. Youdin , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Frédéric Masset , Philip J. Armitage

Whether tidal disruption events circularise or accrete directly as highly eccentric discs is the subject of current research and appears to depend sensitively on the disc thermodynamics. One aspect of this problem that has not received much…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Elliot M. Lynch , Gordon I. Ogilvie

The conventional thermal instability criterion can not be applied to the advection-dominated accretion disks around black holes where the radiative cooling is insufficient to balance the viscous heating. The surface density change…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xue-Bing Wu

The arising of turbulence in gas-dynamic (non-magnetic) accretion disks is a major issue of modern astrophysics. Such accretion disks should be stable against the turbulence generation, in contradiction to observations. Searching for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 E. P. Kurbatov , D. V. Bisikalo , P. V. Kaygorodov

We revisit the viscous decretion disk (VDD) model of the classical Be star $\beta$ CMi as presented by \citet{klement} using an updated version of the radiative transfer code {\ttfamily HDUST}. A software bug was causing the mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Robert Klement , Alex Cavalieri Carciofi , Thomas Rivinius

We perform global two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of Keplerian discs with free eccentricity over thousands of orbital periods. Our aim is to determine the validity of secular theory in describing the evolution of eccentric discs,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Adrian J. Barker , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We discuss non-self-gravitating hydrodynamic disks in the thin disk limit. These systems are stable according to the Rayleigh criterion, and yet there is some evidence that the dissipative and transport processes in these disks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Todd Williams

The problem of dynamical heating of galactic discs by spiral density waves is discussed using the shearing sheet model. The secular evolution of the disc is described quantitatively by a diffusion equation for the distribution function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. Fuchs

Accurate measurements of the physical structure of protoplanetary discs are critical inputs for planet formation models. These constraints are traditionally established via complex modelling of continuum and line observations. Instead, we…

The linear stability of thin vertically-isothermal density-stratified Keplerian discs in toroidally-dominated magnetic fields is treated by asymptotic expansions in the small aspect ratio of the discs. The discs are found to be spectrally…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yuri M. Shtemler , Michael Mond , Edward Liverts