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Semi-analytic models of self-gravitating discs often approximate the angular momentum transport generated by the gravitational instability using the phenomenology of viscosity. This allows the employment of the standard viscous evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice , Peter Cossins , Giuseppe Lodato

The Galactic centre hosts, according to observations, a number of early-type stars. About one half of those which are orbiting the central supermassive black hole on orbits with projected radii $\gtrsim$ 0.03 pc form a coherently rotating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Jaroslav Haas , Ladislav Subr , Pavel Kroupa

We study particle dynamics in local two-dimensional simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs with a simple cooling law. It is well known that the structure which arises in the gaseous component of the disc due to a gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. G. Gibbons , W. K. M. Rice , G. R. Mamatsashvili

A large fraction of cool, low-mass stars exhibit brightness fluctuations that arise from a combination of convective granulation, acoustic oscillations, magnetic activity, and stellar rotation. Much of the short-timescale variability takes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Steven R. Cranmer , Fabienne A. Bastien , Keivan G. Stassun , Steven H. Saar

Particle acceleration by turbulence plays a role in many astrophysical environments. The non- linear evolution of the underlying cosmic-ray spectrum is complex and can be described by a Fokker-Planck equation, which in general has to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julius Donnert , Gianfranco Brunetti

Self-gravity becomes competitive as an angular momentum transport process in accretion discs at large radii, where the temperature is low enough that external irradiation likely contributes to the thermal balance. Irradiation is known to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 W. K. M. Rice , P. J. Armitage , G. R. Mamatsashvili , G. Lodato , C. J. Clarke

This paper presents a new approach to studying galactic structures. They are considered as the low-frequency normal modes in a disc of orbits precessing at different angular speeds. Such a concept is an adequate alternative to the commonly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. Polyachenko

We use one-dimensional two-zone time-dependent accretion disk models to study the long-term evolution of protostellar disks subject to mass addition from the collapse of a rotating cloud core. Our model consists of a constant surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zhaohuan Zhu , Lee Hartmann , Charles Gammie

We proposed the modified version of quantum-mechanical theory of continuous measurements for the case of classical open systems. In our approach the influence of measurement on evolution of distribution function of an open system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. D. Vol

General self-consistent expressions for the coefficients of diffusion and dynamical friction in a stable, bound, multicomponent self-gravitating and inhomogeneous system are derived. They account for the detailed dynamics of the colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Jean Heyvaerts , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

We study the Resonant Relaxation (RR) of an axisymmetric low mass (or Keplerian) stellar disc orbiting a more massive black hole (MBH). Our recent work on the general kinetic theory of RR is simplified in the standard manner by ignoring the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Sridhar , Jihad R. Touma

We study rapidly accreting, gravitationally unstable disks with a series of global, three dimensional, numerical experiments using the code ORION. In this paper we conduct a numerical parameter study focused on protostellar disks, and show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kaitlin M. Kratter , Christopher D. Matzner , Mark R. Krumholz , Richard I. Klein

The stability of toroidal magnetic fields in rotating radiative stellar zones is studied for realistic values of both the Prandtl numbers. The two considered models for the magnetic geometry represent fields with odd and even symmetry with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Ruediger , L. L. Kitchatinov

Angular momentum transport within young massive protoplanetary discs may be dominated by self-gravity at radii where the disk is too weakly ionized to allow the development of the magneto-rotational instability. We use time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-15 W. K. M. Rice , P. J. Armitage

In the last five decades, numerical simulations have provided invaluable insights into the evolution of galactic discs over cosmic times. As a complementary approach, developments in kinetic theory now also offer a theoretical framework to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 Mathieu Roule , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The long timescale evolution of a self-gravitating system is generically driven by two-body encounters. In many cases, the motion of the particles is primarily governed by the mean field potential. When this potential is integrable,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Ben Bar-Or

We describe an analytic model for an evolving protoplanetary disk driven by viscosity and a disk wind. The disk is heated by stellar irradiation and energy generated by viscosity. The evolution is controlled by 3 parameters: (i) the inflow…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 John Chambers

We report the results of self-gravitating simulations of spiral galaxies, modeled by stellar and gaseous components, developed to investigate in particular the role of dissipation in the evolution of galaxy disks. The gas disk is simulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Junqueira , F. Combes

Self-similar and semi-analytical solutions are found for the height-averaged equations govern the dynamical behavior of a polytropic, self-gravitating disk under the effects of winds, around the nascent object. In order to describe time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shahram Abbassi , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Mohsen Shadmehri

I review recent progresses in the dynamics and the evolution of self-gravitating accretion discs. Accretion discs are a fundamental component of several astrophysical systems on very diverse scales, and can be found around supermassive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lodato
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