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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

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

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

We use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to show that an initially mildly misaligned circumbinary accretion disk around an eccentric binary can evolve to an orientation that is perpendicular to the orbital plane of the binary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 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

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

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

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

We investigate the flow of material from highly misaligned and polar circumbinary discs that feed the formation of circumstellar discs around each binary component. With three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations we consider equal mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

The recent discoveries of circumbinary planets by $\it Kepler$ raise questions for contemporary planet formation models. Understanding how these planets form requires characterizing their formation environment, the circumbinary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 David P. Fleming , Thomas R. Quinn

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 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 analyse the evolution of a mildly inclined circumbinary disc that orbits an eccentric orbit binary by means of smoother particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations and linear theory. We show that the alignment process of an initially…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Stephen H. Lubow , Alessia Franchini , Rebecca G. Martin

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

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 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

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

Nearly all young stars are initially surrounded by `protoplanetary' discs of gas and dust, and in the case of single stars at least 30\% of these discs go on to form planets. The process of protoplanetary disc formation can result in…

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

We investigate the evolution of a multi--planet--disc system orbiting one component of a binary star system. The planet--disc system is initially coplanar but misaligned to the binary orbital plane. The planets are assumed to be giants that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Alessia Franchini , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow
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