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Circumplanetary discs can be linearly unstable to the growth of disc tilt in the tidal potential of the star-planet system. We use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to characterize the disc conditions needed for instability,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Rebecca G. Martin , Zhaohuan Zhu , Philip J. Armitage , Chao-Chin Yang , Hans Baehr

The degree of spin-orbit alignment in a population of binary stars can be determined from measurements of their orbital inclinations and rotational broadening of their spectral lines. Alignment in a face-on binary guarantees low rotational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Marcus L. Marcussen , Simon H. Albrecht , Joshua N. Winn , Yubo Su , Mia S. Lundkvist , Kevin C. Schlaufman

We simulate the coupled stellar and tidal evolution of short-period binary stars (orbital period $P_{orb} \lsim$8 days) to investigate the orbital oscillations, instellation cycles, and orbital stability of circumbinary planets (CBPs). We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 David E. Graham , David P. Fleming , Rory Barnes

The stellar spin orientation relative to the orbital planes of multiplanet systems are becoming accessible to observations. Here, we analyze and classify different types of spin-orbit evolution in compact multiplanet systems perturbed by an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gwenaël Boué , Daniel Fabrycky

We show that the ideal hydrodynamics of an eccentric astrophysical disc can be derived from a variational principle. The nonlinear secular theory describes the slow evolution of a continuous set of nested elliptical orbits as a result of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Elliot M. Lynch

We consider a model for the cyclic activity of young binary stars that accrete matter from the remnants of a protostellar cloud. If the orbit of such a binary system is inclined at a small angle to the line of sight, then the streams of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-12 T. Demidova , N. Sotnikova , V. Grinin

We study the evolution of eccentricity and inclination of massive planets in low-density cavities of protoplanetary discs using three-dimensional (3D) simulations. When the planet's orbit is aligned with the equatorial plane of the disc,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-28 M. M. Romanova , A. V. Koldoba , G. V. Ustyugova , C. Espaillat , R. V. E. Lovelace

(Abbreviated) We extend the results of our 2021 paper concerning the problem of tidal evolution of a binary system with a rotating primary component with rotation axis arbitrarily inclined with respect to the orbital plane. Only the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Pavel Ivanov , John Papaloizou

Eclipsing binaries are observed to have a range of eccentricities and spin-orbit misalignments (stellar obliquities). Whether such properties are primordial, or arise from post-formation dynamical interactions remains uncertain. This paper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-20 Kassandra R. Anderson , Dong Lai , Natalia I. Storch

We study the orbital stability of a non-zero mass, close-in circular orbit planet around an eccentric orbit binary for various initial values of the binary eccentricity, binary mass fraction, planet mass, planet semi--major axis, and planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Cheng Chen , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

Accretion discs are common in binary systems, and they are often found to be misaligned with respect to the binary orbit. The gravitational torque from a companion induces nodal precession in misaligned disc orbits. We calculate whether…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Suzan Doğan , Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel J. Price

In this paper we study the evolution of viscous and radiative circumstellar disks under the influence of a companion star. We focus on the eccentric {\gamma} Cephei and {\alpha} Centauri system as examples and compare the disk quantities…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-23 Tobias W. A. Müller , Wilhelm Kley

During the past decade circumbinary disks have been discovered around various young binary stars. Hydrodynamical calculations indicate that the gravitational interaction between the central binary star and the surrounding disk results in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Jan Philipp Ruge , Sebastian Wolf , Tatiana Demidova , Vladimir Grinin

We consider the evolution of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) surrounded by a retrograde accretion disk. Assuming the disk is exactly in the binary plane and transfers energy and angular momentum to the binary via direct gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik

Sub-Jupiter classed circumbinary planets discovered in close-in binary systems have orbits just beyond the dynamically unstable region, which is determined by the eccentricity and mass ratio of the host binary stars. These planets are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Akihiro Yamanaka , Takanori Sasaki

The model of an young star with a protoplanetary disk and a low-mass companion, which is moving on a circular orbit, inclined to the disk plane, is considered. The hydrodynamic models of such a system were calculated by SPH method. It was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-09 T. Demidova , V. Grinin , N. Sotnikova

We present spectroscopic and photometric observations of Bernhard-2, which was previously identified as a candidate system to host a misaligned circumbinary disk. Our spectroscopic measurements confirm that Bernhard-2 indeed contains an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Zhecheng Hu , Wei Zhu , Fei Dai , Ping Chen , Yang Huang , Min Fang , Richard S. Post

Misalignments between the orbital planes of planets and the equatorial planes of their host stars have been observed in our solar system, in transiting exoplanets, and in the orbital planes of debris discs. We present a mechanism that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. P. G. Wijnen , F. I. Pelupessy , O. R. Pols , S. Portegies Zwart

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…

Accretion discs around black holes in X-ray binary stars are warped if the spin axis of the black hole is not perpendicular to the binary orbital plane. They can also become eccentric through an instability involving a resonance with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Barbara T. Ferreira