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We investigate the dynamics of a nonzero mass, circular orbit planet around an eccentric orbit binary for various values of the binary eccentricity, binary mass fraction, planet mass, and planet semi--major axis by means of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Cheng Chen , Alessia Franchini , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

Discs in binaries have a complex behavior because of the perturbations of the companion star. Planet formation in binary-star systems both depend on the companion star parameters and on the properties of the circumstellar disc. An eccentric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Marzari , C. Baruteau , H. Scholl , P. Thebault

We describe the first grid-based simulations of the polar alignment of a circumbinary disk. We simulate the evolution of an inclined disk around an eccentric binary using the grid-based code ATHENA++. The use of a grid-based numerical code…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Ian Rabago , Zhaohuan Zhu , 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

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

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

We study the development of finite eccentricity in accretion disks in close binary systems using a two-dimensional grid-based numerical scheme. We perform detailed parameter studies to explore the dependence on viscosity, disk aspect ratio,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wilhelm Kley , John Papaloizou , Gordon Ogilvie

We investigate the structure and evolution of a geometrically thin viscous Keplerian circumbinary (CB) disk, using detailed models of their radiative/convective vertical structure. We use a simplified description for the evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Dubus , R. E. Taam , H. C. Spruit

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

Gas and dust in inclined orbits around binaries experience precession induced by the binary gravitational torque. The difference in precession between gas and dust alters the radial drift of weakly coupled dust and leads to density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Hossam Aly , Jean-François Gonzalez , Rebecca Nealon , Cristiano Longarini , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

We study the mutual evolution of the orbital properties of high mass ratio, circular, co-planar binaries and their surrounding discs, using 3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations. We investigate the evolution of binary and disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Enrico Ragusa , Richard Alexander , Josh Calcino , Kieran Hirsh , Daniel J. Price

Numerical experiments are the primary method of studying the evolution of circumbinary disks due to the strong nonlinearities involved. Many circumbinary simulations also require the use of numerical mass sinks: source terms which prevent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Alexander Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan

Debris disc analysis and modelling provide crucial information about the structure and the processes at play in extrasolar planetary systems. In binary systems, this issue is more complex because the disc should in addition respond to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Philippe Thebault , Francesco Marzari , Jean-Charles Augereau

Warped accretion discs are expected in many protostellar binary systems. In this paper, we study the long-term evolution of disc warp and precession for discs with dimensionless thickness $H/r$ larger than their viscosity parameter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Francois Foucart , Dong Lai

We aim to examine the detailed disc structure that arises in a misaligned binary system as a function of the disc aspect ratio h, viscosity parameter alpha, disc outer radius R, and binary inclination angle gamma_F. We also aim to examine…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Moritz Fragner , Richard Nelson

Recent hydrodynamical simulations have shown that circumbinary gas disks drive the orbits of binary black holes to become eccentric, even when general relativistic corrections to the orbit are significant. Here, we study the general…

We carry out 2D viscous hydrodynamical simulations of circumbinary accretion using the AREPO code. We self-consistently compute the accretion flow over a wide range of spatial scales, from the circumbinary disk (CBD) far from the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Diego J. Muñoz , Ryan Miranda , Dong Lai

We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability, angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of accreting binaries. These dynamics can impact stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-26 Dong Lai , Diego J. Muñoz

We present a two-dimensional grid-based hydrodynamic simulation of a thin, viscous, locally-isothermal corotating disk orbiting an equal-mass Newtonian binary point mass on a fixed circular orbit. We study the structure of the disk after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Andrew I. MacFadyen , Milos Milosavljevic

We numerically study the tidal instability of accretion discs in close binary systems using a two-dimensional SPH code. We find that the precession rate of tidally unstable, eccentric discs does not only depend upon the binary mass ratio q.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James Murray