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Gravitational coupling between a gaseous disk and an orbiting perturber leads to angular momentum exchange between them which can result in gap opening by planets in protoplanetary disks and clearing of gas by binary supermassive black…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-02 Cristobal Petrovich , Roman R. Rafikov

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers, particularly those with component masses in the pair-instability gap, may be produced by hierarchical mergers in the disks surrounding Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). While the interaction of an embedded BBH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Ya-Ping Li , Adam M. Dempsey , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Jiaru Li

The black hole (BH) binaries in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are expected to form mainly through scattering encounters in the ambient gaseous medium. Recent simulations, including our own, have confirmed this formation pathway is highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-27 Connar Rowan , Henry Whitehead , Tjarda Boekholt , Bence Kocsis , Zoltán Haiman

The question whether the interaction of a circumbinary disc with the central binary system leads to shrinking or expansion of the binary orbit has attracted considerable interest as it impacts the evolution of binary black holes and stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Wilhelm Kley , Hugo Audiffren , Christoph M. Schäfer

Recent high angular resolution ALMA observations have revealed numerous gaps in protoplanetary disks. A popular interpretation has been that planets open them. Most previous investigations of planet gap-opening have concentrated on viscous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Xiao Hu , Zhi-Yun Li , Lile Wang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Jaehan Bae

Using SPH numerical simulations, we investigate the effects of gas on the inspiral and merger of a massive black hole binary. This study is motivated by the very massive nuclear gas disks observed in the central regions of merging galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andres Escala , Richard B. Larson , Paolo S. Coppi , Diego Mardones

Gap formation in a gas disk triggered by disk-planet tidal interaction is considered. Density waves launched by the planet are assumed to be damped as a result of their nonlinear evolution leading to shock formation and its subsequent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roman Rafikov

We present radiation hydrodynamic simulations in which binary planets form by close encounters in a system of several super-Earth embryos. The embryos are embedded in a protoplanetary disk consisting of gas and pebbles and evolve in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Ondřej Chrenko , Miroslav Brož , David Nesvorný

We revisit the phases of the pairing and sinking of BHs in galaxy mergers and circunmunclear disks in light of the results of recent simulations with massive BHs embedded in predominantly gaseous backgrounds. After a general overview we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lucio Mayer

The disk fragmentation is a possible process leading to the formation of Population III stellar binary systems. However, numerical simulations show diverse fates of the fragments; some evolve into stable binaries and others merge away with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Sunmyon Chon , Takashi Hosokawa

We have investigated, both analytically and numerically, accreting supermassive black hole binaries as they inspiral due to gravitational radiation to elucidate the decoupling of binaries from their disks and inform future multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan , M. Coleman Miller

Supermassive black hole binaries are likely to accrete interstellar gas through a circumbinary disk. Shortly before merger, the inner portions of this circumbinary disk are subject to general relativistic effects. To study this regime, we…

We present the first three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a circumbinary disk surrounding an equal mass binary. The binary maintains a fixed circular orbit of separation $a$. As in previous hydrodynamical simulations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Ji-Ming Shi , Julian H. Krolik , Stephen H. Lubow , John F. Hawley

Binary black holes (BBHs) forming in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a promising channel for gravitational-wave production. BBHs are often assumed to form at migration traps, i.e. radial locations where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Maria Paola Vaccaro , Yannick Seif , Michela Mapelli

The gravitational interaction between a protoplanetary disc and planetary sized bodies that form within it leads to the exchange of angular momentum, resulting in migration of the planets and possible gap formation in the disc for more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Richard P. Nelson Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

Using a one-dimensional height integrated model, we calculate the evolution of an unequal mass binary black hole with a coplanar gas disk that contains a gap due to the presence of the secondary black hole. Viscous evolution of the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Chang , L. E. Strubbe , K. Menou , E. Quataert

We explore test particle orbits in the orbital plane of eccentric stellar binary systems, searching for ``invariant loops'': closed curves that change shape periodically as a function of binary orbital phase as the test particles in them…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Barbara Pichardo , Linda S. Sparke , Luis A. Aguilar

We analyze the physical processes of gap formation in an inviscid protoplanetary disk with an embedded protoplanet using two-dimensional local shearing-sheet model. Spiral density wave launched by the planet shocks and the angular momentum…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Takayuki Muto , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We investigate the effect of a planet on an eccentric orbit on a two dimensional low mass gaseous disk. At a planet eccentricity above the planet's Hill radius divided by its semi-major axis, we find that the disk morphology differs from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Pasha Hosseinbor , Richard Edgar , Alice Quillen , Amanda LaPage

(Exo-)planets inherit their budget of chemical elements from a protoplanetary disk. The disk temperature determines the phase of each chemical species, which sets the composition of solids and gas available for planet formation. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Kan Chen , Mihkel Kama , Paola Pinilla , Luke Keyte