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Accretion discs are common in binary systems, and they are often found to be misaligned with respect to the binary orbit. The gravitational torque from a companion induces nodal precession in misaligned disc orbits. We calculate whether…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Suzan Doğan , Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel J. Price

We study the torque acting on a planet embedded in an optically thick accretion disc, using global two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. The temperature of an optically thick accretion disc is determined by the energy balance between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Yamada , S. Inaba

The observed variability of X-ray binaries over a wide range of time-scales can be understood in the framework of a stochastic propagation model, where viscous fluctuations at different radii induce accretion rate variability that propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-18 Naveel Ahmad , Ranjeev Misra , Naseer Iqbal , Bari Maqbool , Mubashir Hamid

Gas falling quasi-spherically onto a black hole forms an inner accretion disc if its specific angular momentum $l$ exceeds $\lmin\sim r_gc$ where $r_g$ is the Schwarzschild radius. The standard disc model assumes $l\gg\lmin$. We argue that,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrei M. Beloborodov , Andrei F. Illarionov

We present a linear analysis of the stability of accretion disks in which angular momentum is removed by the magnetic torque exerted by a centrifugally driven wind. The effects of the dependence of the wind torque on field strength and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xinwu Cao , H. C. Spruit

We show that a standard Shakura-Sunyaev accretion disc around a black hole with an accretion rate lower than the critical Eddington limit does show the instability in the radiation pressure dominated zone. We obtain this result performing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Teresi , D. Molteni , E. Toscano

A linear stability analysis of ionized discs with a temperature gradient and an external axial magnetic field is presented. It is shown that both hydromagnetic and thermomagnetic effects can lead to the amplification of waves and make discs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-04-21 Edward Liverts , Michael Mond , Vadim Urpin

We argue that the quiescent value of the viscosity parameter of the accretion disc in WZ Sge may be alpha_{cold}~0.01, in agreement with estimates of alpha_{cold} for other dwarf novae. Assuming the white dwarf in WZ Sge to be magnetic, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. M. Matthews , R. Speith , G. A. Wynn , R. G. West

We obtained steady solutions of optically thin, single temperature, magnetized black hole accretion disks assuming thermal bremsstrahlung cooling. Based on the results of 3D MHD simulations of accretion disks, we assumed that the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Oda , M. Machida , K. E. Nakamura , R. Matsumoto

We derive the evolution equations describing a thin axisymmetric disk of gas and stars with an arbitrary rotation curve that is kept in a state of marginal gravitational instability and energy equilibrium due to the balance between energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mark R. Krumholz , Andreas Burkert

We have developed a three-dimensional numerical model and applied it to simulate plasma flows in semi-detached binary systems whose accretor possesses a strong intrinsic magnetic field. The model is based on the assumption that the plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-26 A. G. Zhilkin , D. V. Bisikalo

We show that accretion disks, both in the subcritical and supercritical accretion rate regime, may exhibit significant amplitude luminosity oscillations. The luminosity time behavior has been obtained by performing a set of time-dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Teresi , D. Molteni , E. Toscano

We present new thermal equilibrium solutions for optically thin and thick disks incorporating magnetic fields. The purpose of this paper is to explain the bright hard state and the bright/slow transition observed in the rising phases of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 H. Oda , M. Machida , K. E. Nakamura , R. Matsumoto

We analytically calculate the marginally stable surface density profile for rotational instability of protoplanetary disks. The derived profile can be utilized for considering the region in a rotating disk where radial pressure gradient…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-11 Tomohiro Ono , Hideko Nomura , Taku Takeuchi

We study the two-dimensional structure of thin transonic accretion discs in the vicinity of black holes. We use the hydrodynamical version of the Grad-Shafranov equation and focus on the region inside the marginally stable orbit. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. S. Beskin , A. D. Tchekhovskoy

In the dynamics of accretion disks, the presence of collective effects associated with the self-gravity of the disk is expected to affect not only the momentum transport, but also the relevant energy balance equations, which could differ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Bertin , G. Lodato

The local gravitational instability of rotating discs is believed to be an important mechanism in different astrophysical processes, including the formation of gas and stellar clumps in galaxies. We aim to study in three dimensions the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-24 Carlo Nipoti , Cristina Caprioglio , Cecilia Bacchini

We consider the accretion process in the thin disk around a supermassive black hole in Einstein-aether-scalar theory. We probe the effects of the model parameter on the physical properties of the disk. The results show that with increasing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Tong-Yu He , Ziqiang Cai , Rong-Jia Yang

In two previous publications$^{1,2}$, we have demonstrated that stationary rotation of magnetized plasma about a compact central object permits an enormous number of different MHD instabilities, with the well-known magneto-rotational…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans Goedbloed , Rony Keppens

Accretion discs are present around both stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries and supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. A wide variety of circumstantial evidence implies that many of these discs are warped. The standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Scott Tremaine , Shane W. Davis