English
Related papers

Related papers: Hydrodynamic Torques in Circumbinary Accretion Dis…

200 papers

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 study a warping instability of a geometrically thin, non-self-gravitating disk surrounding binary supermassive black holes on a circular orbit. Such a circumbinary disk is subject to not only tidal torques due to the binary gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Kimitake Hayasaki , Bong Won Sohn , Atsuo T. Okazaki , Taehyun Jung , Guangyao Zhao , Tsuguya Naito

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

We consider a geometrically thin, Keplerian disk in the orbital plane of a binary black hole (BHBH) consisting of a spinning primary and low-mass secondary (mass ratio q < 1). To account for the principle effects of general relativity (GR),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-18 Stuart L. Shapiro

In a recent paper we have shown that the evolution of a misaligned disc around a spinning black hole can result in tearing the disc into many distinct planes. Tearing discs with random orientations produce direct dynamical accretion on to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel Price

We present a study of the gas-driven orbital evolution of unequal mass black hole binaries with circumbinary gas disks (CBDs), varying Mach number and viscosity (nu). Using two-dimensional grid-based hydrodynamics simulations spanning a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Madeline Clyburn , Jonathan Zrake

We present the results of 2D hydrodynamical simulations of circumbinary disk accretion using the finite-volume code DISCO. This code solves the 2D viscous Navier-Stokes equations on a high-resolution moving mesh which shears with the fluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Brian D. Farris , Paul Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

Circumbinary accretion occurs throughout the universe, from the formation of stars and planets to the aftermath of major galactic mergers. We present an extensive investigation of circumbinary accretion disks, studying circular binaries…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-13 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan

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

When an accretion disk surrounds a binary rotating in the same sense, the binary exerts strong torques on the gas. Analytic work in the 1D approximation indicated that these torques sharply diminish or even eliminate accretion from the disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Ji-Ming Shi , Julian H. Krolik

Eccentric gaseous discs are unstable to a parametric instability involving the resonant interaction between inertial-gravity waves and the eccentric mode in the disc. We present 3D global hydrodynamical simulations of inviscid circumbinary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Arnaud Pierens , Colin P. McNally , Richard P. Nelson

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

We investigate whether a circumbinary gas disc can coalesce a supermassive black hole binary system in the centre of a galaxy. This is known to be problematic for a prograde disc. We show that in contrast, interaction with a retrograde…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. J. Nixon , P. J. Cossins , A. R. King , J. E. Pringle

We study the interplay between gas accretion and gravity torques in changing a binary elements and its total angular momentum (L) budget. Especially, we analyse the physical origin of the gravity torques (T_g) and their location within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-15 Constanze Roedig , Alberto Sesana , Massimo Dotti , Jorge Cuadra , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Francesco Haardt

We present a pseudo-Newtonian stationary circumbinary slim disk model. We extend the slim disk formalism by including the binary tidal torque and solve the resulting steady-state equations to determine the circumbinary disk structure. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Sixiang Wen , Vasileios Paschalidis

Stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs are possible progenitors of black-hole mergers detected in gravitational waves by LIGO/VIRGO. To better understand the hydrodynamical evolution of BBHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Rixin Li , Dong Lai

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

We study the evolution and emission of circumbinary disks around close classical T Tauri binary systems. High resolution numerical hydrodynamical simulations are employed to model a system consisting of a central eccentric binary star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Guenther , C. Schaefer , W. Kley

Circumbinary disks crucially affect the orbital and electromagnetic properties of binary systems across the universe, from stars in our galactic neighborhood to supermassive black hole binaries formed as the result of tumultuous galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan , Luciano Combi

The study of the interaction of a massive black hole binary with its gaseous environment is crucial in order to be able to predict merger rates and possible electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave signals. The evolution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Alessia Franchini , Alessandro Lupi , Alberto Sesana