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It is usually thought that viscous torque works to align a circumbinary disk with the binary's orbital plane. However, recent numerical simulations suggest that the disk may evolve to a configuration perpendicular to the binary orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

Martin & Lubow (2017) found that an initially sufficiently misaligned low mass protoplanetary disc around an eccentric binary undergoes damped nodal oscillations of tilt angle and longitude of ascending node. Dissipation causes evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

A test particle orbit around an eccentric binary has two stationary states in which there is no nodal precession: coplanar and polar. Nodal precession of a misaligned test particle orbit centres on one of these stationary states. A low mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Charles P. Abod , Cheng Chen , Jeremy Smallwood , Ian Rabago , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

Binaries occur in many astrophysical systems, from young protostellar binaries in star forming regions to supermassive black hole binaries in galaxy centers. In many cases, a circumbinary disk of gas forms around the binary with an orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Cheng Chen , Philip J. Armitage , C. J. Nixon

In a recent paper Martin & Lubow showed that a circumbinary disc around an eccentric binary can undergo damped nodal oscillations that lead to the polar (perpendicular) alignment of the disc relative to the binary orbit. The disc angular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

Binary star systems can accrete material originating from a circumbinary disc. Since it is common for the circumbinary disc to be tilted with respect to the binary orbital plane, we test whether the accretion dynamics can be a diagnostic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Ya-Ping Li , Hongping Deng , Alessia Franchini

Martin & Lubow (2017) showed through simulations that an initially tilted disc around an eccentric binary can evolve to polar alignment in which the disc lies perpendicular to the binary orbital plane. We apply linear theory to show both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

Binary systems are ubiquitous in the Universe and often host circumbinary discs that are misaligned with the binary orbital plane. Such misalignments can affect disc evolution and binary accretion variability. We here present 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ruiqi Yang , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Hongping Deng , Ya-Ping Li , Alessia Franchini , Ruobing Dong , Shang-Fei Liu

We consider a hierarchical triple system consisting of an inner eccentric binary with an outer companion. A highly misaligned circumbinary disk around the inner binary is subject to two competing effects: (i) nodal precession about the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen Lepp , Stephen H. Lubow , Matthew A. Kenworthy , Grant M. Kennedy , David Vallet

We determine the evolution of a giant planet-disk system that orbits a member of a binary star system and is mildly inclined with respect to the binary orbital plane. The planet orbit and disk are initially mutually coplanar. We analyze the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

Circumbinary gas disks that are misaligned to the binary orbital plane evolve toward either a coplanar or a polar-aligned configuration with respect to the binary host. The preferred alignment depends on the dynamics of the disk: whether it…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ted M. Johnson , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen Lepp , Stephen H. Lubow

All circumbinary planets currently detected are in orbits that are almost coplanar to the binary orbit. While misaligned circumbinary planets are more difficult to detect, observations of polar aligned circumbinary gas and debris disks…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Anna Childs , Rebecca Martin

Inspired by recent observations suggesting that the retrograde precession of the brown dwarf binary 2M1510 AB is consistent with induction by a polar circumbinary planet, we investigate the formation of such planets by studying the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Thomas A. Baycroft , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , Richard P. Nelson

A particle orbiting a misaligned eccentric orbit binary undergoes nodal precession either around the binary angular momentum vector (a circulating orbit) or around a stationary inclination (a librating orbit). In the absence of general…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Stephen Lepp , Rebecca G. Martin , Anna C. Childs

We explore the evolution of a giant planet that interacts with a circumbinary disc that orbits a misaligned binary by means of analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. Planet-disc interactions lead to mutual tilt oscillations between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

We investigate the formation mechanism for the observed nearly polar aligned (perpendicular to the binary orbital plane) debris ring around the eccentric orbit binary 99 Herculis. An initially inclined nonpolar debris ring or disc will not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Alessia Franchini , Cheng Chen , Eric Becerril , Stephen H. Lubow , Chao-Chin Yang , Rebecca G. Martin

We investigate the mechanism of polar alignment for accretion discs in hierarchical systems (HSs) with more than two stars. In eccentric binary systems, low mass discs that are sufficiently tilted to the binary orbit align in a polar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Simone Ceppi , Cristiano Longarini , Giuseppe Lodato , Nicolás Cuello , Stephen H. Lubow

Observations of hierarchical triple star systems show that misalignments are common both between the angular momentum vector of the inner binary and the outer companion orbit, and between the outer binary orbit and a circumtriple gas disk.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Stephen Lepp , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

With hydrodynamical simulations we determine the conditions under which an initially coplanar planet-disc system that orbits a member of a misaligned binary star evolves to form a planet that undergoes Kozai-Lidov (KL) oscillations once the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow , Chris Nixon , Philip J. Armitage

We investigate the orbital dynamics of circumbinary planetary systems with two planets around a circular or eccentric orbit binary. The orbits of the two planet are initially circular and coplanar to each other, but misaligned with respect…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Cheng Chen , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin
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