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We study the evolution of circumbinary disks under the gravitational influence of the binary using two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the impact of disk and binary parameters on the dynamical aspects of the disk. To…

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Linear analysis of gas flows around orbiting binaries suggests that a centrifugal barrier ought to clear a low-density cavity around the binary and inhibit mass transfer onto it. Modern hydrodynamics simulations have confirmed the…

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We present a study of equal-mass hyperbolic encounters, embedded in a uniform gaseous medium. Using linear perturbation theory, we calculate the density wakes excited by these perturbers and compute the resulting forces exerted on them by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 David O'Neill , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Martin E. Pessah

Searches for gravitational waves from compact binaries focus mostly on quasi-circular motion, with the rationale that wave emission circularizes the orbit. Here, we study the generality of this result, when astrophysical environments (e.g.,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Vitor Cardoso , Caio F. B. Macedo , Rodrigo Vicente

The dynamic evolution of galactic bars in standard $\Lambda$CDM models is dominated by angular momentum loss to the dark matter haloes via dynamical friction. Traditional approximations to dynamical friction are formulated using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-29 Rimpei Chiba , Ralph Schönrich

Triple stellar systems allow us to study stellar processes that cannot be attained in binary stars. The evolutionary phases in which the stellar members undergo mass exchanges can alter the hierarchical layout of these systems. Yet, the…

Using numerical hydrodynamics calculations and a novel method for densely sampling parameter space, we measure the accretion and torque on a binary system from a circumbinary disk. In agreement with previous studies, we find that the net…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-03 Paul C. Duffell , Daniel D'Orazio , Andrea Derdzinski , Zoltan Haiman , Andrew MacFadyen , Anna L. Rosen , Jonathan Zrake

Steady-state circulation currents are predicted in tidally deformed binary stars, which are believed to be progenitors of double black-hole merger events. This work aims to quantitatively characterise the steady-state circulation currents…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Ben Hastings , Norbert Langer , Gloria Koenigsberger

The evolution of a small satellite inside a more massive truncated isothermal spherical halo is studied using both the Theory of Linear Response for dynamical friction and N-Body simulations. The analytical approach includes the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Monica Colpi , Lucio Mayer , Fabio Governato

We investigate the hierarchical gravitational three-body problem, in which a binary is perturbed by a distant object that orbits on a Keplerian ellipse around the binary itself. This phenomenon, known as Kozai-Lidov mechanism in the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Barnabás Deme

A binary system composed of an oscillating and rotating coplanar dusty disk and a point mass is considered. The conservative dynamics is treated on the Newtonian level. The effects of gravitational radiation reaction and wave emission are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Dörte Hansen

With n-body simulations and analytic approximations we study the dynamics and stability of low eccentricity misaligned test particles around binary systems with varying mass fraction and eccentricity. General relativity (GR) plays a primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 Gonzalo C. de Elía , Macarena Zanardi , Rebecca G. Martin

The total mass of a distant star cluster is often derived from the virial theorem, using line-of-sight velocity dispersion measurements and half-light radii, under the implicit assumption that all stars are single (although it is known that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , R. de Grijs

We extend our previous studies of head-on collisions of boson stars by considering orbiting binary boson stars. We concentrate on equal mass binaries and study the dynamical behavior of boson/boson and boson/antiboson pairs. We examine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Palenzuela , L. Lehner , S. L. Liebling

The loss of orbital energy and angular momentum to gravitational waves produced in a binary inspiral forces the orbital eccentricity to adiabatically evolve and oscillate. For comparable-mass binaries, the osculating eccentricity is thought…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-21 Nicholas Loutrel , Samuel Liebersbach , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

(Abridged) To gain insight into the dynamical influence of a supermassive black hole binary on a circumbinary accretion disk, we investigate the binary and viscous torque densities throughout such a disk, with emphasis on the final density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Michal Pirog , Siddharth Mahesh , Sean T. McWilliams

When a gravitating point mass moves subsonically through a magnetized and isothermal medium, the dynamical structure of the flow is studied far from the mass using a perturbation analysis. Analytical solutions for the first-order density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Mohsen Shadmehri , Fazeleh Khajenabi

We study the spontaneous motion, binary collisions, and collective dynamics of "polar disks", i.e. purpose-built particles which, when vibrated between two horizontal plates, move coherently along a direction strongly correlated to their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-19 Julien Deseigne , Sébastien Léonard , Olivier Dauchot , Hugues Chaté

We find that nuclear rings in barred galaxies can be subject to a new type of non-self-gravitational dynamical instability. The instability leads to the formation of gaseous molecular bars with pattern speeds which are substantially slower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Clayton Heller , Isaac Shlosman , Peter Englmaier

Our binary evolutionary code predicted until now the position of both stars in the HRD, the characteristics of the accretion disk around the gainer in the case that there is enough space between both stars for this disk. Our code includes a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Walter van Rensbergen , Jean Pierre de Greve