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High-resolution imaging of some protoplanetary disks in scattered light reveals presence of the global spiral arms of significant amplitude, likely excited by massive planets or stellar companions. Assuming that these arms are density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Roman R. Rafikov

We present a 3-D ideal MHD simulation of magnetospheric accretion onto a non-rotating star. The accretion process unfolds with intricate 3-D structures driven by various mechanisms. First, the disc develops filaments at the magnetospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone , Nuria Calvet

We present an instability occurring in the inner part of disks threaded by a moderately strong vertical (poloidal) magnetic field. Its mechanism is such that a spiral density wave in the disk, driven by magnetic stresses (rather than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Tagger , R. Pellat

We derive a simple, accurate, non-linear, global equation governing spiral density waves in thin, non-self-gravitating, inviscid accretion discs. These discs may have any slowly varying surface density or temperature profile. For specific…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Joshua J. Brown , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We perform 3D SPH simulations of warped, non-coplanar gravitationally unstable discs to show that as the warp propagates through the self-gravitating disc, it heats up the disc rendering it gravitationally stable. Thus losing their spiral…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Sahl Rowther , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru

Spirals shocks have been widely studied in the context of galactic dynamics and protostellar discs. They may however also play an important role in some classes of close binary stars, and more particularly in cataclysmic variables. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henri M. J. Boffin

The interaction between a protostellar magnetosphere and a surrounding dynamo-active accretion disc is investigated using an axisymmetric mean-field model. In all models investigated, the dynamo-generated magnetic field in the disc arranges…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brigitta von Rekowski , Axel Brandenburg

Gravitational forces are expected to excite spiral density waves in protoplanetary disks, disks of gas and dust orbiting young stars. However, previous observations that showed spiral structure were not able to probe disk midplanes, where…

(abridged) Angular momentum transport and accretion in protoplanetary discs are generally believed to be driven by MHD turbulence via the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). The dynamics of solid bodies embedded in such discs (dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Richard P. Nelson , Oliver Gressel

In dwarf nov{\ae} and low-mass X-ray binaries, the tidal potential excites spiral waves in the accretion disc. Spiral wave driven accretion may be important in quiescent discs, where the angular momentum transport mechanism has yet to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 M. Van den Bossche , G. Lesur , G. Dubus

In young circumstellar disks, accretion--the inspiral of disk material onto the central star--is important for both the buildup of stellar masses and the outcome of planet formation. Although the existence of accretion is well documented,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Joan R. Najita , Edwin A. Bergin

In recent years, it has been demonstrated that massive stars see their infant circumstellar medium shaped into a large, irradiated, gravitationally unstable accretion disc during their early formation phase. Such discs constitute the gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 D. M. -A. Meyer , E. Vorobyov

We consider the inner $\sim$ AU of a protoplanetary disk (PPD), at a stage where angular momentum transport is driven by the mixing of a radial magnetic field into the disk from a T-Tauri wind. Because the radial profile of the imposed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Matthew Russo , Christopher Thompson

Protoplanetary disks are believed to evolve on Myr timescales in a diffusive (viscous) manner as a result of angular momentum transport driven by internal stresses. Here we use a sample of 26 protoplanetary disks resolved by ALMA with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Roman R. Rafikov

As an initial investigation into the long-term evolution of protostellar disks, we explore the conditions required to explain the large outbursts of disk accretion seen in some young stellar objects. We use one-dimensional time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zhaohuan Zhu , Lee Hartmann , Charles F. Gammie , Laura G. Book , Jacob B. Simon , Eric Engelhard

We study the structure and dynamics of the gap created by a protoplanet in an accretion disc. The hydrodynamic equations for a flat, two-dimensional, non-selfgravitating protostellar accretion disc with an embedded, Jupiter sized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-01 Willy Kley

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

Gravitational instability plays an important role in driving gas accretion in massive protostellar discs. Particularly strong is the global gravitational instability, which arises when the disc mass is of order 0.1 of the mass of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Harsono , R. D. Alexander , Yuri Levin

Large-scale radial transport of solids appears to be a fundamental consequence of protoplanetary disk evolution based on the presence of high temperature minerals in comets and the outer regions of protoplanetary disks around other stars.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fred Ciesla

In this article, we proceed to study convection as a possible factor of episodic accretion in protoplanetary disks. Within the model presented in Article~I, the accretion history is analyzed at different rates and areas of matter inflow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 L. A. Maksimova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov