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Many astrophysical binaries, from planets to black holes, exert strong torques on their circumbinary accretion disks, and are expected to significantly modify the disk structure. Despite the several decade long history of the subject, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bence Kocsis , Zoltan Haiman , Abraham Loeb

We study the orbital evolution of wide binary stars in the solar neighborhood due to gravitational perturbations from passing stars. We include the effects of the Galactic tidal field and continue to follow the stars after they become…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-08 Yan-Fei Jiang , Scott Tremaine

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

The Kepler space mission discovered about a dozen planets orbiting around binary stars systems. Most of these circumbinary planets lie near their instability boundaries at about 3 to 5 binary separations. Past attempts to match these final…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 A. B. T. Penzlin , W. Kley , R. P. Nelson

Most stars form in a clustered environment. Therefore, it is important to assess how this environment influences the evolution of protoplanetary discs around young stars. In turn, this affects their ability to produce planets and ultimately…

When a circumbinary disk surrounds a binary whose secondary's mass is at least $\sim 10^{-2}\times$ the primary's mass, a nearly empty cavity with radius a few times the binary separation is carved out of the disk. Narrow streams of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 Ji-Ming Shi , Julian H. Krolik

We explore the dynamical evolution of a planet embedded in a disk surrounding a star part of a binary system where the orbital plane of the binary is significantly tilted respect to the initial disk plane. Our aim is to test whether the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Giovanni Picogna , Francesco Marzari

We study the evolution of circumstellar massive disks around the primary star of a binary system focusing on the computation of disk eccentricity. In particular, we concentrate on its dependence on the binary eccentricity. Self-gravity is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Marzari , H. Scholl , P. Thebault , C. Baruteau

Disc warping, and possibly disc breaking, has been observed in protoplanetary discs around both single and multiple stars. Large warps can break the disc, producing multiple observational signatures. In this work, we use comparisons of disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Ian Rabago , Zhaohuan Zhu , Stephen Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

Martin & Lubow (2017) showed through simulations that an initially tilted disc around an eccentric binary can evolve to polar alignment in which the disc lies perpendicular to the binary orbital plane. We apply linear theory to show both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

We develop a rapid algorithm for the evolution of stable, circular, circumbinary discs suitable for parameter estimation and population synthesis modelling. Our model includes disc mass and angular momentum changes, accretion on to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Robert G. Izzard , Adam S. Jermyn

We present the results of hydrodynamic simulations of the formation and subsequent orbital evolution of giant planets embedded in a circumbinary disc. We assume that a 20 earth masses core has migrated to the edge of the inner cavity formed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arnaud Pierens , Richard P. Nelson

One possible explanation of the cavity in debris discs is the gravitational perturbation of an embedded giant planet. Planetesimals passing close to a massive body are dynamically stirred resulting in a cleared region known as the chaotic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Zs. Regaly , Z. Dencs , A. Moor , T. Kovacs

Observations of systems hosting close in ($<1$ AU) giant planets and brown dwarfs ($M\gtrsim7$ M$_{\rm Jup}$) find an excess of binary star companions, indicating that stellar multiplicity may play an important role in their formation.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 James Cadman , Cassandra Hall , Clémence Fontanive , Ken Rice

Accretion discs around black holes can become warped by Lense-Thirring precession if the disc is tilted with respect to the black hole spin vector. When the disc viscosity is sufficiently large that warp propagation is diffusive, the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 N. C. Drewes , C. J. Nixon

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 effects of general relativity (GR) on the evolution and alignment of circumbinary disks around binaries on all scales. We implement relativistic apsidal precession of the binary into the hydrodynamics code {\sc phantom}. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-18 Anna C. Childs , Rebecca G. Martin , C. J. Nixon , Aaron M. Geller , Stephen H. Lubow , Zhaohuan Zhu , Stephen Lepp

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

We investigate the formation and evolution of misaligned accretion discs around the secondary component of a binary through mass transfer driven by Kozai-Lidov oscillations of the circumprimary disc's eccentricity and inclination. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Alessia Franchini , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

The freezing mechanism, recently suggested for a monodisperse hard-disk fluid [Huerta et al., Phys. Rev. E, 2006, 74, 061106] is extended here to an equimolar binary hard-disk mixtures. We are showing that for diameter ratios, smaller than…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-01 A. Huerta , V. Carrasco-Fadanelli , A. Trokhymchuk