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We show that the algorithm proposed by Gauss to compute the secular evolution of gravitationally interacting Keplerian rings extends naturally to softened gravitational interactions. The resulting tool is ideal for the study of the secular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 J. R. Touma , S. Tremaine , M. V. Kazandjian

I present the results of 1D models of circumplanetary discs around planets on eccentric orbits. I use a classical viscous heating model to calculate emission fluxes at the wavelengths targeted by the NIRCam instrument on JWST, and compare…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alex Dunhill

The significant orbital eccentricities of most giant extrasolar planets may have their origin in the gravitational dynamics of initially unstable multiple planet systems. In this work, we explore the dynamics of two close planets on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitri Veras , Philip J. Armitage

Although the Eddington limit has originally been derived for stars, recently its relevance for the evolution of accretion discs has been realized. We discuss the question whether the classical Eddington limit - which has been applied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Heinzeller , W. J. Duschl

Linear perturbation is used to investigate the effect of gravitational softening on the retrieved two-armed spiral eigenmodes of razor-thin stellar discs. We explore four softening kernels with different degrees of gravity bias, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Sven De Rijcke , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Walter Dehnen

Eccentric Keplerian discs are believed to be unstable to three-dimensional hydrodynamical instabilities driven by the time-dependence of fluid properties around an orbit. These instabilities could lead to small-scale turbulence, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Adrian J. Barker , Gordon I. Ogilvie

The first-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) that describes the mid-plane gravitational potential in flat finite size discs in which the surface density is a power-law function of the radius R with exponent s (Hur\'e & Hersant 2007)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -M. Huré , F. Hersant , C. Carreau , J. -P. Busset

Planet-forming discs often contain structures like spiral arms, typically linked to the disc's gravitational forces. In 2D models, an ad hoc softening prescription is commonly used for self-gravity, but this overlooks the vertical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 S. Rendon Restrepo , T. Rometsch , U. Ziegler , O. Gressel

Here we furnish a pseudo-Newtonion potential for accretion disk modeling around rotating central objects having hard sueface. That means, the potential may be useful to describe the accretion disk around rotating neutron stars and strange…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Shubhrangshu Ghosh

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at developing and interpreting simulations of protoplanets interacting with turbulent accretion discs. Here we study the disc models prior to the introduction of a protoplanet.We study models in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. B. Papaloizou , Richard P. Nelson

The secular Laplace-Lagrange orbital solution, decomposing eccentricities into a set of uniformly precessing eigenmodes is a classical result that is typically solved numerically. However, in the limit where orbits are closely spaced,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Qing Yang , Daniel Tamayo

An eccentric, unequal-mass binary induces forced eccentricity in a circumbinary disk through the non-axisymmetric component of its gravitational potential. Building on the theory of free (i.e., unforced) eccentric modes, we develop a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-25 Marcela Grcic , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Martin E. Pessah

The one-dimensional, ordinary differential equation (ODE) by Hur\'e & Hersant (2007) that satisfies the midplane gravitational potential of truncated, flat power-law disks is extended to the whole physical space. It is shown that thickness…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jean-Marc Huré , Franck Hersant

We investigate the gravitational potentials generated by axisymmetric, razor-thin disks. Within certain limitations, the potential on one side of the disk is shown to be equivalent to the potential produced by a linear mass distribution…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 J. An

It is known that gap opening depends on the disc's viscosity; however, eccentricity damping formulas have only been derived at high viscosities, ignoring partial gap opening. We aim at obtaining a simple formula to model $e$-damping of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Gabriele Pichierri , Bertram Bitsch , Elena Lega

We consider the precession rates of eccentric discs in close binaries, and compare theoretical predictions with the results of numerical disc simulations and with observed superhump periods. A simple dynamical model for precession is found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James R. Murray

I developed an efficient numerical method for obtaining the gravitational potential of razor-thin spiral perturbations and used it to assess the standard tight-winding approximation, which is found to be reasonably accurate for pitch angles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Walter Dehnen

Gravitational coupling between a protoplanetary disc and an embedded eccentric planet is an important, long-standing problem, which has been not yet been conclusively explored. Here we study the torque and associated orbital evolution of an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Callum W. Fairbairn , Roman R. Rafikov

Using linear perturbation theory, we evaluate the time-dependent force exerted on an eccentric and inclined low-mass planet embedded in a gaseous protoplanetary disc with finite thermal diffusivity $\chi$. We assume the eccentricity and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 Sebastien Fromenteau , Frederic Masset

We aim to investigate the influence of the eccentricity and inclination damping due to planet-disc interactions on the final configurations of the systems, generalizing previous studies on the combined action of the gas disc and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 Sotiris Sotiriadis , Anne-Sophie Libert , Bertram Bitsch , Aurélien Crida