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The linear instability of thin, vertically-isothermal Keplerian discs, under the influence of axial magnetic field is investigated. Solutions of the stability problem are found explicitly by asymptotic expansions in the small aspect ratio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Liverts , Yu. Shtemler , M. Mond

We present a study of the Rayleigh-Taylor unstable regime of accretion onto rotating magnetized stars in a set of high grid resolution three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations performed in low-viscosity discs. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 A. A. Blinova , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

Thin, Keplerian accretion disks generically become gravitationally unstable at large radius. I investigate the nonlinear outcome of such instability in cool disks using razor-thin, local, numerical models. Cooling, characterized by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Charles F. Gammie

The thermal stability of accretion disk and the possibility to see a limit-cycle behaviour strongly depends on the ability of the disk plasma to cool down. Various processes connected with radiation-matter interaction appearing in hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-16 Mikolaj Grzedzielski , Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny

The phenomenological Disc Instability Model has been successful in reproducing the observed light curves of dwarf nova outbursts by invoking an enhanced Shakura-Sunyaev $\alpha$ parameter $\sim0.1-0.2$ in outburst compared to a low value…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 M. S. B. Coleman , I. Kotko , O. Blaes , J. -P. Lasota , S. Hirose

We report on the first global three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations of disk accretion onto a rotating magnetized star through the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The star has a dipole field misaligned relative to the rotation axis by a small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Marina M. Romanova , Akshay K. Kulkarni , Richard V. E. Lovelace

The role of convection in the gas-dust accretion disk around a young star is studied. The evolution of a Keplerian disk is modeled using the Pringle equation, which describes the time variations of the surface density under the action of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov , L. A. Maksimova , E. I. Vorobyov

We show that thin accretion disks made of Carbon or Oxygen are subject to the same thermal ionization instability as Hydrogen and Helium disks. We argue that the instability applies to disks of any metal content. The relevance of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kristen Menou , Rosalba Perna , Lars Hernquist

We examine the accretion process in a thin disk surrounding a supermassive black hole within the framework of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar (EMS) gravity. Our investigation aims to elucidate how variations in model parameters affect different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-21 Yingdong Wu , Haiyuan Feng , Wei-Qiang Chen

Radiation from accretion discs in cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) provides fundamental information about the properties of these close binary systems and about the physics of accretion in general. The detailed diagnostics of accretion disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Irit Idan , Jean-Pierre Lasota , Jean-Marie Hameury , Giora Shaviv

We investigate the stability to nonaxisymmetric perturbations of an accretion disc in which a poloidal magnetic field provides part of the radial support against gravity. Interchange instability due to radial gradients in the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. C. Spruit , R. Stehle , J. C. B. Papaloizou

Warm Comptonization models for the soft X-ray excess in AGN do not self-consistently explain the relationship between the Comptonizing medium and the underlying accretion disc. Because of this, they cannot directly connect the fitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Jason Kaufman , Omer M. Blaes , Shigenobu Hirose

If accretion disc contains weak frozen-in entangled magnetic fields, their dynamical effect may be important inside the last stable orbit because of the decompression near the sonic point. Here, I consider the radial and vertical structure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Abolmasov

The time dependent evolution of the accretion disk around black hole is computed. The classical description of the $\alpha$-viscosity is adopted so the evolution is driven by the instability operating in the innermost radiation-pressure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Aneta Siemiginowska

The model of a geometrically thin gaseous disk in the external gravitational potential is considered. The dinamics of small nonaxisymmetric perturbations in the plane of the accretion disk with dissipative effects is investigated. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. V. Khoperskov , S. S. Khrapov

Young protoplanetary discs are expected to be gravitationally unstable, which can drive angular momentum transport as well as be a potential mechanism for planet formation. Gravitational instability is most prevalent in the outer disc where…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Caitriona S. Leedham , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

We study the radiation-driven warping of accretion discs in the context of X-ray binaries. The latest evolutionary equations are adopted, which extend the classical alpha theory to time-dependent thin discs with non-linear warps. We also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. I. Ogilvie , G. Dubus

In earlier works we pointed out that the disk's surface layers are non-turbulent and thus highly conducting (or non-diffusive) because the hydrodynamic and/or magnetorotational (MRI) instabilities are suppressed high in the disk where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

Accretion discs are generally warped. If a warp in a disc is too large, the disc can `break' apart into two or more distinct planes, with only tenuous connections between them. Further if an initially planar disc is subject to a strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 S. Doğan , C. J. Nixon , A. R. King , J. E. Pringle

The temporal behaviour of X-rays from some AGN and microquasars is thought to arise from the rapid collapse of the hot, inner parts of their accretion discs. The collapse can occur over the radial infall timescale of the inner accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 Mayur B. Shende , Prashali Chauhan , Prasad Subramanian