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Parsec-scale separation supermassive black hole binaries in the centre of gas-rich galaxy merger remnants could be surrounded by massive circumbinary discs (CBDs). Black hole mass and spin evolution during the gas-rich binary inspiral are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-13 Martin A. Bourne , Davide Fiacconi , Debora Sijacki , Joanna M. Piotrowska , Sophie Koudmani

The Kepler mission's discovery of a number of circumbinary planets orbiting close (a_p < 1.1 au) to the stellar binary raises questions as to how these planets could have formed given the intense gravitational perturbations the dual stars…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 S. Lines , Z. M. Leinhardt , C. Baruteau , S. -J. Paardekooper , P. J. Carter

Hydrodynamical interaction in circumbinary discs (CBDs) plays a crucial role in various astrophysical systems, ranging from young stellar binaries to supermassive black hole binaries in galactic centers. Most previous simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Hai-Yang Wang , Xue-Ning Bai , Dong Lai , Douglas N. C. Lin

We study the basic properties of accretion flows onto binary supermassive black holes, including the cases in which a circumbinary disk is misaligned with the binary orbital plane, by means of three-dimensional Smoothed Particle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Kimitake Hayasaki , Hideki Saito , Shin Mineshige

How does the cavity size in circumbinary discs depend on disc and binary properties? We investigate by simulating disc cavities carved by binary companions using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We find that a cavity is quickly opened…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Kieran Hirsh , Daniel J Price , Jean-François Gonzalez , M. Giulia Ubeira-Gabellini , Enrico Ragusa

We investigate how the formation and structure of circumplanetary disks (CPDs) varies with planet mass and protoplanetary disk aspect ratio. Using static mesh refinement and a near-isothermal equation of state, we perform a small parameter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Sabina Sagynbayeva , Rixin Li , Aleksandra Kuznetsova , Zhaohuan Zhu , Yan-Fei Jiang , Philip J. Armitage

(Abridged) Giant planets are observed orbiting the primary stars of close binary systems. Such planets may have formed in compact circumprimary disks, under conditions much different than those around single stars. To quantify the effects…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Francesco Marzari , Gennaro D'Angelo

We study the accretion flows from the circumbinary disks onto the supermassive binary black holes in a subparsec scale of the galactic center, using a smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Simulation models are presented in four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

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

The three-dimensional structure of the gas flow around a planet is thought to influence the accretion of both gas and solid materials. In particular, the outflow in the mid-plane region may prevent the accretion of the solid materials and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Ayumu Kuwahara , Hiroyuki Kurokawa , Shigeru Ida

CS Cha is a binary system surrounded by a circumbinary disk. We construct a model for the inner disk regions and compare the resulting synthetic SED with IRS spectra of CS Cha taken at two different epochs. For our model we adopt a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Erick Nagel , Catherine Espaillat , Paola D'Alessio , Nuria Calvet

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

Context. Inner cavities, accretion arms and density waves are characteristic structures in the density distribution of circumbinary disks. They are the result of the tidal interaction of the non-axisymmetric gravitational forces of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Roman Avramenko , Sebastian Wolf , Tobias F. Illenseer , Stig Rehberg

The evolution of circumbinary discs and planets is often studied using two-dimensional (2D) numerical simulations, although recent work suggests that 3D effects may significantly alter the structure of the inner cavity created by the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Arnaud Pierens , Richard Nelson

Binary systems surrounded by a circumbinary accretion flow can be subject to strong magnetic fields, potentially altering the character of the accretion flow itself, the evolution of the orbital dynamics, and outflow properties from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Hai-Yang Wang , Elias R. Most , Philip F. Hopkins

With a help of hydrodynamical models, we explore fundamental modes of gas flow in central parts of a galaxy potential with non-axisymmetric perturbations of various strengths. Our grid-based algorithm allows us to get a detailed picture of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Witold Maciejewski

Context. Dynamical studies suggest that most circumbinary discs (CBDs) should be coplanar. However, some theoretical works show that under certain conditions a CBD can become polar, which means that its rotation vector is orthogonal with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Nicolás Cuello , Cristian A. Giuppone

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

The presence of planets in binary systems poses interesting problems for planet formation theories, both in cases where planets must have formed in very compact discs around the individual stars and where they are located near the edge of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Yayaati Chachan , Richard A. Booth , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , Cathie Clarke

We investigate the formation of dust traffic jams in polar-aligning circumbinary discs. We use 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations of both gas and dust to model an initially highly misaligned circumbinary disc around an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Min-Kai Lin , Hossam Aly , Rebecca Nealon , Cristiano Longarini