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Observations of circumbinary discs reveal inner cavities, with their shape and size varying strongly between different systems. The structure of the cavity is determined by the complex interplay between spirals induced by tidal forcing from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Alexandros Ziampras , Nicolas T. Kurtovic , Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro , Paola Pinilla

The evolution of circumbinary discs and planets is often studied using two-dimensional (2D) numerical simulations, although recent work suggests that 3D effects may significantly alter the structure of the inner cavity created by the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Arnaud Pierens , Richard Nelson

How does the cavity size in circumbinary discs depend on disc and binary properties? We investigate by simulating disc cavities carved by binary companions using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We find that a cavity is quickly opened…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Kieran Hirsh , Daniel J Price , Jean-François Gonzalez , M. Giulia Ubeira-Gabellini , Enrico Ragusa

Hydrodynamical interaction in circumbinary discs (CBDs) plays a crucial role in various astrophysical systems, ranging from young stellar binaries to supermassive black hole binaries in galactic centers. Most previous simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Hai-Yang Wang , Xue-Ning Bai , Dong Lai , Douglas N. C. Lin

More than half of all stars are part of binaries, and many form in a common circumbinary disc. The interaction with the binary shapes the disc to feature a large eccentric inner cavity and spirals in the inner disc. The shape of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Richard A. Booth , Richard P. Nelson , Christoph M. Schäfer , Wilhelm Kley

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 results of 2-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of self-gravitating circumbinary discs around binaries whose parameters match those of the circumbinary planet-hosting systems Kepler-16, -34 and -35. Previous work has shown…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Matthew M. Mutter , Arnaud Pierens , Richard P. Nelson

At the final stages of a supermassive black hole coalescence, the emission of gravitational waves will efficiently remove energy and angular momentum from the binary orbit, allowing the separation between the compact objects to shrink. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Camilo Fontecilla , Giuseppe Lodato , Jorge Cuadra

Hydrodynamical interactions between binaries and circumbinary disks (CBDs) play an important role in a variety of astrophysical systems, from young stellar binaries to supermassive black hole binaries. Previous simulations of CBDs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Hai-Yang Wang , Xue-Ning Bai , Dong Lai

Many of the most intriguing features, including spirals and cavities, in the current disc observations are found in binary systems like GG Tau, HD 142527 or HD 100453. Such features are evidence of the dynamic interaction between binary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-11 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Richard A. Booth , Richard P. Nelson , Christoph M. Schäfer , Wilhelm Kley

We investigate the impact of radiation pressure on the circumbinary discs surrounding accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at milli-parsec separations, using 3D hyper-Lagrangian resolution hydrodynamic simulations. The circumbinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Fabiola Cocchiararo , Alessia Franchini , Alessandro Lupi , Alberto Sesana

The process of forming a circumbinary planet is thought to be intimately related to the structure of the nascent circumbinary disc. It has been shown that the structure of a circumbinary disc depends strongly on 3-dimensional effects and on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-08 Arnaud Pierens , Richard P. Nelson

We study the evolution of circumbinary disks under the gravitational influence of the binary using two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the impact of disk and binary parameters on the dynamical aspects of the disk. To…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-14 Daniel Thun , Wilhelm Kley , Giovanni Picogna

Accretion discs at sub-pc distances around supermassive black holes are likely to cool rapidly enough that self-gravity results in fragmentation. Here, we use high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of a simplified disc model to study how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-08 R. D. Alexander , P. J. Armitage , J. Cuadra

Understanding the interaction of massive black hole binaries with their gaseous environment is crucial since at sub-parsec scales the binary is too wide for gravitational wave emission to take over and to drive the two black holes to merge.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Alessia Franchini , Alberto Sesana , Massimo Dotti

Circumstellar disks in binaries are perturbed by the companion gravity causing significant alterations of the disk morphology. Spiral waves due to the companion tidal force also develop in the vertical direction and affect the disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Giovanni Picogna , Francesco Marzari

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

The mass of the gaseous reservoir in young circumstellar disks is a crucial initial condition for the formation of planetary systems, but estimates vary by orders of magnitude. In some disks with resolvable cavities, sharp inner disk warps…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Simon Casassus , Sebastian Perez , Axel Osses , Sebastian Marino

As of today ten circumbinary planets orbiting solar type main sequence stars have been discovered. Nearly all of them orbit around the central binary very closely to the region of instability where it is difficult to form them in situ. It…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Wilhelm Kley , Daniel Thun , Anna B. T. Penzlin

In this paper we consider the effects of opacity regimes on the stability of self-gravitating protoplanetary discs to fragmentation into bound objects. Using a self-consistent 1-D viscous disc model, we show that the ratio of local cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Peter Cossins , Giuseppe Lodato , Cathie Clarke
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