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Circumbinary disks crucially affect the orbital and electromagnetic properties of binary systems across the universe, from stars in our galactic neighborhood to supermassive black hole binaries formed as the result of tumultuous galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan , Luciano Combi

Convection has been discussed in the field of accretion discs for several decades, both as a means of angular momentum transport and also because of its role in controlling discs' vertical structure via heat transport. If the gas is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Loren E. Held , Henrik N. Latter

We consider a mechanism for the formation of superhumps in the TV Col system, based on the possible existence of a precessional spiral wave in the accretion disk of the system. This mechanism can act in binaries with arbitrary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. V. Kaygorodov , D. V. Bisikalo , O. A. Kuznetsov , A. A. Boyarchuk

Spiral density waves dominate several facets of accretion disc dynamics --- planet-disc interactions and gravitational instability (GI) most prominently. Though they have been examined thoroughly in two-dimensional simulations, their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 A. Riols , H. Latter

Transitional protostellar disks have inner cavities heavily depleted in dust and gas, yet most show signs of ongoing accretion, often at rates comparable to full disks. We show that recent constraints on the gas surface density in a few…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Lile Wang , Jeremy J. Goodman

We study particle dynamics in local two-dimensional simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs with a simple cooling law. It is well known that the structure which arises in the gaseous component of the disc due to a gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. G. Gibbons , W. K. M. Rice , G. R. Mamatsashvili

Tilted accretion disks in the magnetically arrested (MAD) state may be present in X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei such as Sgr A* and M87. We have carried out 3D global GRMHD simulations to study the evolution of these accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-26 Sajal Gupta , Jason Dexter

We study a warping instability of a geometrically thin, non-self-gravitating, circumbinary disk around young binary stars on an eccentric orbit. Such a disk is subject to both the tidal torques due to a time-dependent binary potential and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kimitake Hayasaki , Bong Won Sohn , Atsuo T. Okazaki , Taehyun Jung , Guangyao Zhao , Tsuguya Naito

We study non-axisymmetric structure of accretion discs in Be/X-ray binaries, performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations for a coplanar system with a short period and a moderate eccentricity. We find that ram…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kimitake Hayasaki , Atsuo T. Okazaki

Given the absence of observations of black hole binaries, it is critical that the full range of accessible parameter space be explored in anticipation of future observation with gravitational wave detectors. To this end, we compile the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-29 Janna Levin , Sean T. McWilliams , Hugo Contreras

We present numerical spectral and vertical structure calculations appropriate for near-Eddington-luminosity, radiation-pressure-dominated accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes. We cover a wide range of black hole spins and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Theodore Dezen , Bryan Flores

We review results on the dynamics of warped gaseous discs. We consider tidal perturbation of a Keplerian disc by a companion star orbiting in a plane inclined to the disc. The perturbation induces the precession of the disc, and thus of any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Terquem , J. Papaloizou , R. Nelson

An eccentric nuclear disk consists of stars moving on apsidally-aligned orbits around a central black hole. The secular gravitational torques that dynamically stabilize these disks can also produce tidal disruption events (TDEs) at very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Heather N. Wernke , Ann-Marie Madigan

We first briefly review how we investigate the modes of oscillation trapped within the inner region of accretion disks by the strong-field gravitational properties of a black hole (or a compact, weakly-magnetized neutron star). Then we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alexander S. Silbergleit , Robert V. Wagoner , Manuel Ortega-Rodriguez

We perform a series of 3D simulations to study the accretion of giant planet embedded in protoplanetary discs (PPDs) over gap-opening timescales. We find that the accretion mass flux mainly comes from the intermediate latitude above the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Ya-Ping Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin

We present a pseudo-Newtonian stationary circumbinary slim disk model. We extend the slim disk formalism by including the binary tidal torque and solve the resulting steady-state equations to determine the circumbinary disk structure. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Sixiang Wen , Vasileios Paschalidis

We investigate the properties of circumplanetary discs formed in three-dimensional, self-gravitating radiation hydrodynamical models of gas accretion by protoplanets. We determine disc sizes, scaleheights, and density and temperature…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ben A. Ayliffe , Matthew R. Bate

Tilted disk precession exists in different objects. Negative superhumps (NSHs) in cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) are believed to arise from the interaction between the reverse precession of a tilted disk and the streams from the secondary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Qi-Bin Sun , Sheng-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu , Qin-Mei Li , Min-Yu Li , Ping Li

Stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs offer a distinct dynamical channel to produce black hole mergers detected in gravitational waves by LIGO/Virgo. To understand their orbital evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Rixin Li , Dong Lai

Gas falling into a black hole (BH) from large distances is unaware of BH spin direction, and misalignment between the accretion disc and BH spin is expected to be common. However, the physics of tilted discs (e.g., angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-06 Matthew Liska , Casper Hesp , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis , Sera Markoff