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Context. Observations with warm Spitzer and JWST revealed high and variable brightness in the planet 55 Cnc e. Aims. Inventory of the tidal effects on the rotational and orbital evolution of the planet 55 Cnc e enhanced by the nonzero…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Sylvio Ferraz-Mello , Cristian Beaugé

When a star passes close to a supermassive black hole (BH), the BH's tidal forces rip it apart into a thin stream, leading to a tidal disruption event (TDE). In this work, we study the post-disruption phase of TDEs in general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Zachary L. Andalman , Matthew T. P. Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eric R. Coughlin , Nicholas Stone

Accretion disc turbulence is investigated in the framework of the shearing box approximation. The turbulence is either driven by the magneto-rotational instability or, in the non-magnetic case, by an explicit and artificial forcing term in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Axel Brandenburg

We investigate the growth of tidal instabilities in accretion discs in a binary star potential, using three dimensional numerical simulations. As expected from analytic work, the disc is prone to an eccentric instability provided that it is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. R. Murray , P. J. Armitage

We have applied an eccentric accretion disc theory in simplified form to the case of an accretion disc in a binary system, where the disc contains the 3:1 Lindblad resonance. This is relevant to the case of superhumps in SU Ursae Majoris…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Simon Goodchild , Gordon Ogilvie

After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), the bound stellar debris rapidly forms an accretion disk. If the accretion disk is not aligned with the spinning SMBH's equatorial plane, the disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

Several studies have already considered the influence of tides on the evolution of systems composed of a star and a close-in companion to tentatively explain different observations such as the spin-up of some stars with hot Jupiters, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 David Cébron , Michael Le Bars , Patrice Le Gal , Claire Moutou , J. Leconte , Alban Sauret

Accretion disks in close binary systems are subject to a tidally driven parametric instability which leads to the growth of internal waves near the outer edges of such disks (Goodman 1993). These waves are important in understanding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ethan T. Vishniac , Changsong Zhang

When a star is torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole (a so-called TDE) a transient accretion episode is initiated and a hot, often X-ray bright, accretion disk is formed. Like any accretion flow this disk is turbulent,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrew Mummery

Stars approaching supermassive black holes can be tidally disrupted. Despite being expected to emit X-rays, TDEs have been largely observed in optical bands, which is poorly understood. In this Letter, we simulate the tidal disruption of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Fangyi , Hu , Daniel J. Price , Ilya Mandel

Axisymmetric accretion disks in vicinity of a central compact body are studied. For the simple models such as vertically isothermal disks as well as adiabatic ones the exact solutions to the steady-state MHD (magneto-hydrodynamic) system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-06 V. S. Borisov

Tidal dissipation due to convective turbulent viscosity shapes the evolution of a variety of astrophysical binaries. For example, this type of dissipation determines the rate of orbital circularization in a binary with a post-main sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai

Discs in binaries have a complex behavior because of the perturbations of the companion star. Planet formation in binary-star systems both depend on the companion star parameters and on the properties of the circumstellar disc. An eccentric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Marzari , C. Baruteau , H. Scholl , P. Thebault

We present the first local simulations of disc breaking/tearing in a warped accretion disc. Warps can arise due to a misalignment between the disc and the rotation axis of the central object, or a misalignment with the orbital plane of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Loren E Held , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We perform high-resolution, grid-based hydrodynamics simulations of gaseous rings viscously spreading into disks around equal-mass, circular binaries. We find that all systems suppress accretion onto the binary when the gas is relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Leonardo Betancourt , Andrew MacFadyen , Jonathan Zrake

The potential of tidal disruption of stars to probe otherwise quiescent supermassive black holes cannot be exploited, if their dynamics is not fully understood. So far, the observational appearance of these events has been derived from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Clément Bonnerot , Elena M. Rossi , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

Recent observations have begun probing the early phases of disc formation, but little data yet exists on disc structure and morphology of Class 0 objects. Using simulations, we are able to lay out predictions of disc morphologies expected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 Benoit Commerçon , Francesco Lovascio , Elliot Lynch , Enrico Ragusa

A popular class of models for interpreting quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions from galactic nuclei (QPEs) invoke collisions between an object on an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) and an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. There…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Andrew Mummery

Using three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with electron and proton thermodynamics and an electron cooling function, we probe the inner radial and vertical structure of weakly magnetized geometrically thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 A. Hankla , J. Dexter , N. Scepi

We formulate a local dynamical model of an eccentric disc in which the dominant motion consists of elliptical Keplerian orbits. The model is a generalization of the well known shearing sheet, and is suitable for both analytical and…

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