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Two-dimensional numerical simulations of an accretion flow in a close binary system are performed by solving the Euler equations with radiative transfer. In the present study, the specific heat ratio is assumed to be constant while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun'ichi Sato , Keisuke Sawada , Naofumi Ohnishi

We present the results of qualitative consideration of possible changes occurring during the transition from the hot accretion disc to the cool one. We argue the possible existence of one more type of spiral density waves in the inner part…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. V. Bisikalo , A. A. Boyarchuk , P. V. Kaygorodov , O. A. Kuznetsov , T. Matsuda

Binary systems are ubiquitous in the Universe and often host circumbinary discs that are misaligned with the binary orbital plane. Such misalignments can affect disc evolution and binary accretion variability. We here present 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ruiqi Yang , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Hongping Deng , Ya-Ping Li , Alessia Franchini , Ruobing Dong , Shang-Fei Liu

We investigate the effects of different dust and gas opacity descriptions on the structure and evolution of the inner regions of protoplanetary discs. The influence on the episodic instability of the inner rim is hereby of central interest.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Michael Cecil , Mario Flock , Mykola G. Malygin , Rolf Kuiper , Prakruti Sudarshan , Alexandros Ziampras , Vardan G. Elbakyan

As a planet ages it cools and its radius shrinks, at a rate set by the efficiency with which heat is transported from the interior out to space. The bottleneck for this transport is at the boundary between the convective interior and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Rauscher , A. P. Showman

We present detailed, analytical models for the formation of disc galaxies to investigate the impact that cooling and feedback have on their structural properties. In particular, we investigate which observables extracted directly from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank C. van den Bosch

Martin & Lubow (2017) found that an initially sufficiently misaligned low mass protoplanetary disc around an eccentric binary undergoes damped nodal oscillations of tilt angle and longitude of ascending node. Dissipation causes evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

We have carried out two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to study the effects of disk self-gravity and radiative cooling on the formation of gaps and spirals. (1) With disk self-gravity included, we find stronger, more tightly-wound…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-14 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

The ring and gap structures found in observed protoplanetary disks are often attributed to embedded gap-opening planets and typically modeled with simplified thermodynamics in the 2D, thin disk approximation. However, it has been shown that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Alexandros Ziampras , Amelia J. Cordwell , Roman R. Rafikov , Richard P. Nelson

In the core accretion scenario, forming planets start to acquire gaseous envelopes while accreting solids. Conventional one-dimensional models assume envelopes to be static and isolated. However, recent three-dimensional simulations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Ayumu Kuwahara , Michiel Lambrechts

The interaction of a massive binary and a non-self-gravitating circumbinary accretion disc is considered. The shape of the stationary twisted disc produced by the binary is calculated. It is shown that the inner part of the disc must lie in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou , A. G. Polnarev

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

We model the overall shape of an accretion disc in a semi-detached binary system in which mass is transfered on to a spinning black hole the spin axis of which is misaligned with the orbital rotation axis. We assume the disc is in a steady…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Rebecca G. Martin , J. E. Pringle , Christopher A. Tout

Circumplanetary disks can be found around forming giant planets, regardless of whether core accretion or gravitational instability built the planet. We carried out state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of the circumplanetary disks for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 J. Szulágyi , L. Mayer , T. Quinn

The temperature in the optically thick interior of protoplanetary discs is essential for the interpretation of millimeter observations of the discs, for the vertical structure of the discs, for models of the disc evolution and the planet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Akio K. Inoue , Akinori Oka , Taishi Nakamoto

Recent ALMA observations revealed concentric annular structures in several young class-II objects. In an attempt to produce the rings and gaps in some of these systems, they have been modeled numerically with a single embedded planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Alexandros Ziampras , Wilhelm Kley , Cornelis P. Dullemond

The temperature of a circumbinary disc edge should undulate due to variations in illumination as a function of binary orbital phase. We explore circumbinary disc temperature variations as a source of broad-band infrared light curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Eva Bodman , Alice Quillen

Gravitational coupling between young planets and their parent disks is often explored using numerical simulations, which typically treat the disk thermodynamics in a highly simplified manner. In particular, many studies adopt the locally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Ryan Miranda , Roman R. Rafikov

With a series of numerical simulations, we analyze the thermo-hydrodynamical evolution of circumstellar disks containing Jupiter-size protoplanets. In the framework of the two-dimensional approximation, we consider an energy equation that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Gennaro D'Angelo , Thomas Henning , Willy Kley

ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks in dust continuum emission reveal a variety of annular structures. Attributing the existence of such features to embedded planets is a popular scenario, supported by studies using hydrodynamical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Alexandros Ziampras , Richard P. Nelson , Roman R. Rafikov