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In studying the formation of massive stars, it is essential to consider the strong radiative feedback on the stars' natal environments from their high luminosities ($10^4 \sim 10^6 L_\odot$). Given that massive stars contract to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Nathaniel Kee , Stan Owocki , Rolf Kuiper

In the vicinity of a massive black hole, stars move on precessing Keplerian orbits. The mutual stochastic gravitational torques between the stellar orbits drive a rapid reorientation of their orbital planes, through a process called vector…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Ben Bar-Or , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

A generalized analysis of the local entropy production of a simple fluid is used to show that, if intrinsic angular momentum is taken into account, rotational viscosity must arise in the linear non-equilibrium regime. As a consequence, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alfredo Sandoval-Villalbazo , Ana Garcia-Perciante , LS Garcia-Colin

The HH 111 protostellar system is a young Class I system with two sources, VLA 1 and VLA 2, at a distance of 400 pc. Previously, a flattened envelope has been seen in C18O to be in transition to a rotationally supported disk near the VLA 1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Chin-Fei Lee

A thin gaseous disc with an almost keplerian angular velocity profile, bounded by a free surface and rotating around point-mass gravitating object is nearly spectrally stable. Despite that the substantial transient growth of linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Dmitry Razdoburdin , Viacheslav Zhuravlev

We study the solution of viscous accretion disks around rotating compact/central object having hard surface i.e. neutron star, strange star and any other highly gravitating objects. We choose pseudo-Newtonian approach to describe the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Shubhrangshu Ghosh

A popular model for the circumstellar disks of Be stars is that of a geometrically thin disk with a density in the equatorial plane that drops as a power law of distance from the star. It is usually assumed that the vertical structure of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-24 T. A. A. Sigut , M. A. McGill , C. E. Jones

We investigate the structure and evolution of a geometrically thin viscous Keplerian circumbinary (CB) disk, using detailed models of their radiative/convective vertical structure. We use a simplified description for the evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Dubus , R. E. Taam , H. C. Spruit

We show that gravitational radiation drives an instability in hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars. This instability occurs primarily in the l=2 r-mode and will carry away most of the angular momentum of a rapidly rotating star by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Lee Lindblom , Benjamin J. Owen , Sharon M. Morsink

We calculate the excitation and dissipation of low-frequency tidal oscillations in uniformly rotating solar-type stars. For tidal frequencies smaller than twice the spin frequency, inertial waves are excited in the convective envelope and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 G. I. Ogilvie , D. N. C. Lin

The stellar disc kinematics in a sample of fifteen intermediate- to late-type edge-on spiral galaxies are studied using a dynamical modeling technique. The sample covers a substantial range in maximum rotation velocity and deprojected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit

As the largest population of high mass X-ray binaries, Be/X-ray binaries provide an excellent laboratory to investigate the extreme physics of neutron stars. It is generally accepted that Be stars possess a circumstellar disc, providing an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 R. O. Brown , M. J. Coe , W. C. G. Ho , A. T. Okazaki

The turbulent environment from which stars form may lead to misalignment between the stellar spin and the remnant protoplanetary disk. By using hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations, we demonstrate that a wide range of stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-09 Drummond B. Fielding , Christopher F. McKee , Aristotle Socrates , Andrew J. Cunningham , Richard I. Klein

Strong magnetization makes the disks surrounding young stellar objects rotate at rates that are too sub-Keplerian to enable the thermal launching of disk winds from their surfaces unless the rate of gas diffusion across field lines is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Frank H. Shu , Susana Lizano , Daniele Galli , Mike J. Cai , Subhanjoy Mohanty

We present and validate a novel semi-analytical approach to study the effect of dynamical friction on the orbits of massive perturbers in rotating stellar discs. We find that dynamical friction efficiently circularises the orbit of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-22 Matteo Bonetti , Elisa Bortolas , Alessandro Lupi , Massimo Dotti , Sandra I. Raimundo

The truncation of stellar discs is not abrupt but characterized by a continuous distancing from the exponential profile. There exists a truncation curve, $t(r)$, ending at a truncation radius, $r_t$. We present here a theoretical model in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Battaner , E. Florido , J. Jimenez-Vicente

The star formation process in molecular clouds usually leads to the formation of multiple stellar systems, mostly binaries. Remaining disks around those stars may be located around individual stars (circumstellar disks) or around the entire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wilhelm Kley , Andreas Burkert

We discuss the properties of an accretion disk around a star with parameters typical of classical T Tauri stars (CTTS), and with the average accretion rate for these disks. The disk is assumed steady and geometrically thin. The turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Paola D'Alessio , Jorge Canto , Nuria Calvet , Susana Lizano

We explore the properties of cold gravitoturbulent accretion disks - non-fragmenting disks hovering on the verge of gravitational instability - using a realistic prescription for the effective viscosity caused by gravitational torques. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Roman R. Rafikov

Tidal interactions in close star-planet or binary star systems may excite inertial waves (their restoring force is the Coriolis force) in the convective region of the stars. The dissipation of these waves plays a prominent role in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-16 Mathieu Guenel , Stéphane Mathis , Clément Baruteau , Michel Rieutord